[CentOS] mbox files - can they be "compacted"?

On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 9:49 PM, Russell Miller <duskglow at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Even if there aren't huge issues with doing this, it's an easily fixed thing. Allowing directories to have
> hundreds of thousands of entries as a matter of course, even if it's something that causes no issues
> in many cases, to me is an architectural issue.

Even if modern systems sort-of handle it, it still seems like a bad
thing to do when you consider that opening a file for writing has to
atomically decide whether that name already exists before creating it
- so other concurrent create/delete operations have to be blocked.

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  Les Mikesell
     lesmikesell at gmail.com