On the other hand, this has been where some OS developers have wanted to go for a long time. And isn't this the goal of WinFS? (Also known as the "Duke Nukem Forever" of file systems.)
BeOS stored its emails as individual files, and the file system was the database. The first time I noticed that I thought it was strange, and then eminently smart. And in fact Apple hired the main FS guy from Be. On a very slow Pentium II, BeOS was blazingly fast. That's what you get when you design an OS with no legacy challenges I guess. In fact Entourage Email Archive can also store your emails as individual text files in subfolders. on 1/24/05 6:52 PM, Jud Spencer at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > At the moment, Mail.app saves email using mbox format: each folder is saved > as a file; individual messages are aggregated together inside each file. The > version of Mail.app that will ship with 10.4 changes that: now, each email > will be saved as a separate file. In other words, they�re letting the file > system be the database." > > So not even Mail.app will use mbox format. If this is true, then Apple must > be counting on the fact that the OS can handle hundreds of thousands, if not > millions of files. That is a definite departure from the way that we have > always been taught to treat the OS. Eric Carlsbad, CA http://www.jphotog.com "A little patience, and we shall see the reign of witches pass over, their spells dissolve, and the people, recovering their true sight, restore their government to its true principles. It is true that in the meantime we are suffering deeply in spirit, and incurring the horrors of a war and long oppressions of enormous public debt. . . . If the game runs sometimes against us at home we must have patience till luck turns, and then we shall have an opportunity of winning back the principles we have lost, for this is a game where principles are at stake." --Thomas Jefferson, 1798, after the passage of the Sedition Act -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
