[ge-talk] Bookmarks and email

[Michael Phipps]

BFS handles small files well enough, IMHO. It really has trouble with 
performance only if you are trying to create/delete hundreds a second. 
Storing Bookmarks, people files, emails and more in attributed files is, 
IMHO, the best choice.

I understand why Moz team is doing this work; it makes sense when you have 
to code for the lowest common denominator. Another reason why I think that 
ports are generally a bad idea. Again, though, I think that something the 
size of a web browser almost has to be at least partially a port.

Michael


Ari Haviv wrote:
> it looked like such an easy solution. Our file system has attributes and 
> why
> not make every bookmark and email a separate file so you can do searches 
> and
> sharing. The problem is, no file system and especially ours can handle lots
> of small files!
> 
> So for performance, browsers such as Firefox stores bookmarks in 1 file and
> most email clients use some kind of mbox variant or proprietary format.
> How do we avoid this problem? You want to try a new browser and you now 
> have
> to import bookmarks and constantly sync. Then you decide you've had enough
> with the syncing and don't give the new browser a chance.
> 
> That's not really what we want on haiku.
> 
> So I'm hoping for some shared solution that can deal with these situations.
> Firefox is working on a database system for its bookmarks and history. 
> Maybe
> that can be abstracted out of the browser?
> 
> ref: http://wiki.mozilla.org/Places
> 
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