Re: [RFC] LKML Archive in Maildir Format

From: Joey Pabalinas <joeypabalinas@gmail.com>
To: Joey Pabalinas <joeypabalinas@gmail.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] LKML Archive in Maildir Format
Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2018 09:53:43 -1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181216195343.idnt2y5y5wjky5gu@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181216194649.GA7732@pure.paranoia.local>

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On Sun, Dec 16, 2018 at 02:46:49PM -0500, Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 16, 2018 at 09:06:39AM -1000, Joey Pabalinas wrote:
> > I spent a lot of time trying to find an LKML archive in Maildir format
> > that I could use for local searches with nutmuch or something, but all
> > the links I was able to find were all dead.
> > 
> > I ended up just compiling one myself and I currently host it at:
> > 
> > https://alyptik.org/lkml.tar.xz
> 
> You seem to have duplicated a lot of effort that has already been done
> to compile the archive on lore.kernel.org.

Absolutely correct, haha.

> 
> > It's possible I'm the only weirdo who finds this kind of thing useful, but
> > I figured I should share it just in case I'm not.
> 
> The maildir format is kind of terrible for LKML, because having millions
> of messages in a single directory is very hard on the underlying FS. If
> you break it up into multiple folders, then it becomes difficult to
> search. This is the main reason why we have chosen to go with the
> public-inbox format, which solves both of these problems and allows for
> a very efficient archive updating and replication using git.
> 
> > It's about 1.1 million files, I was wondering if anyone had an idea of a
> > better way to host this? I've tried Github and GitLab, but they don't
> > appreciate repos with that many files, hah.
> 
> Like I said, you seem to be going down the road we've already tried and
> rejected. :)

Yes, I had a strong suspicion I might be the only crazy person who prefers this
kind of format :)

My only comment on the public-mailbox choice is that the documentation
is very sparse and erratic. Myself and a couple other people just
couldn't figure out how to convert that format to Maildir or some other
format you could feed into a reader like neomutt.

Do you have any advice on how to convert those public-inbox files
correctly?

-- 
Cheers,
Joey Pabalinas

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