From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Dec 23 01:52:10 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id BAA26477 for chat-outgoing; Mon, 23 Dec 1996 01:52:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id BAA26472 for ; Mon, 23 Dec 1996 01:52:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id KAA19783; Mon, 23 Dec 1996 10:51:29 +0100 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id KAA10418; Mon, 23 Dec 1996 10:51:28 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.4/8.6.9) id KAA02236; Mon, 23 Dec 1996 10:50:04 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199612230950.KAA02236@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: mailing list archives To: chat@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 23 Dec 1996 10:50:04 +0100 (MET) Cc: jmb@freefall.freebsd.org Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <12050.851306689@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Dec 22, 96 06:04:49 pm" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > This isn't any improvement, IMO. The files would still be way-too-large > > for people to deal with and it doesn't make it any easier to index the > > contents. One message per file is the only scheme that addresses these > > problems. > > Except then we'll almost certainly run out of inodes in the target > directory sooner rather than later. As a compromise (until we've got your database): what about daily archives? Even for the most bloat^H^H^H^H^Hpopulated lists, they are not more than a few hundred KB per day. This should be small enough to make it still manageable. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)