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Re: mboxfs, the mailbox filesystem


From: Marcus Brinkmann
Subject: Re: mboxfs, the mailbox filesystem
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 19:43:42 +0200
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On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 10:13:12AM -0500, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote:
> > I haven't looked at your code, but perhaps consider basing this on GNU
> > Mailutils - that way it would support mbox, pop3, imap4, and
> > eventually every mailbox format under the sun (blatent plug for people
> > wanting to write maildir support goes here)
> 
> what about something like libferris?
> http://freshmeat.net/projects/libferris/?topic_id=809%2C142
> 
> it sounds like it does a lot of what the various translators people are
> writing do. it's GPLed, so it's fully licence compatible with hurd. :)
> 
> anyone looked at this thing before?

libferris, GNOME VFS, KDE ioslave, they are all variations of the same idea:
Providing data in filesystem form.

The Hurd has this concept built in at the system level, which means that all
programs can benefit from it, not only those written to use libferris (GNOME
VFS, KDE ioslave...), and it is completely transparent to them.  They aren't
even asked if they want it.

I don't really know what you have in mind.  If you mean you could write a
generic ferrisfs translator that provides a ferris abstraction as a Hurd
translator/filesystem, then this might be possible, although I would be
surprised if it will give good results.

Thanks,
Marcus

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