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I'm working on a mail handling (and BBS) system under OS/2, but
I've run into some problem in the design of the message database.
As the system will handle UUCP and USENET mail, messages can be
quite large. The best solution I've found so far, is to store
the message header in a B-TREE indexed database and the message
texts in seprate files, named after the header index number.
But this could result in that several thousand files are stored
in one directory, which probally will be quite slow (relativly) to
open (OS/2 will have to read the long directory often), but maybe
this can be speeded up by large cache size.
Message could also be stored in diffrent directories (one for each area
maybe) which would speed up directory read and file opens.
Is there any other solution?
Would greatlly appreciate any hints on this matter!


Regards,
            nicolai, nicolai@lysator.liu.se


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