On 22Nov24, Eric Tykwinski via mailop apparently wrote: > Here’s the thing that confuses me, and perhaps because I don’t know > Interplanetary File System as much as I should. > You have /var/spool/mail/user which changes every time you receive/delete a > message, and that changes the hash/CID which I’m assuming will replicate to > other distributed systems on IPFS. Is there a read/write lock so you don’t > overwrite changes on server a vs server b.
This has been a challenge of distributed mail stores since day one. Same problem arose when people started putting /var/spool mail on NFS servers in the 80s. You also have to consider the distributed state of a mailbox on changes due to retrieval (read flags, deleted, moved, etc) not just on initial storage. It's a fun trip, enjoy. Mark. _______________________________________________ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://list.mailop.org/listinfo/mailop
