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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: link() security
Date: 15 Apr 2002 12:55:11 -0700
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Followup to:  <20020415143641.A46232@hiwaay.net>
By author:    Chris Adams <cmadams@hiwaay.net>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> Once upon a time, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> said:
> >Not to mention the fact that the single file mailbox design is itself
> >flawed.  Mailboxes are fundamentally directories, which news server
> >authors quickly realized.
> 
> Funny that news server authors realized that storing messages in files
> by themselves is a bad idea, while at the same time mail server authors
> realized that storing messages together in a single file is a bad idea.
> Which one is right?  Both?  Neither?
> 

It depends on your access patterns.  Newer news server use what I
would classify as custom filesystems (which is what binary databases
are, by and large) rather than "single files."

	-hpa
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