Subj : ARCMAIL
To   : August Abolins
From : mark lewis
Date : Tue Mar 24 2020 14:29:13

  Re: ARCMAIL
  By: August Abolins to Tommi Koivula on Tue Mar 24 2020 18:13:28


 AA> Arc or no arc makes no real difference me, but recall a certain boss
 AA> node operator tell me that disk space is no problem these days.  ;)

not only that but directories can hold a lot more individual files these days 
than back in the DOS FAT-16 and FAT-32 days... specifically, DOS used to see a 
huge slowdown if there were over 255 files in one directory... the introduction 
of the JAM message base format turned this up when folks configured all their 
200+ JAM areas in one directory... with at least four files per JAM base, the 
system crawled along when scanning for messages... separating the JAM bases 
into no more than 45 or so areas per directory alleviated this problem... 
upgrading to other/better OSes also alleviated the problem since they didn't 
have the same limitation in their storage format(s)...


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