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Also known as: traditional spool
The traditional storage method: one file per article, in a directory tree that mirrors the group name, so alt.test article 42 lands in alt/test/42. Easy to inspect with ordinary shell tools and convenient for small text sites, but the filesystem overhead of millions of tiny files makes it unworkable for binary volumes, where CNFS is used instead.
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