<html> <!-- $Id: notes.html,v 1.2 2002/05/25 19:57:43 leg Exp $ --> <body> <ul> <li>appending: it's important that the index records for individual messages make it to disk before the index header indicating that they're there. so something like: <ol> <li>sync messages to disk (or depend on <tt>link()</tt> being atomic) <li>create new index records, flush to disk <li>create new header if necessary (adding new user flag), flush to disk <li>flush cache file <li>update index header, flush to disk </ol> </li> </ul> </body> </html>