Date: Mon, 23 Dec 1996 10:50:04 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: chat@freebsd.org Cc: jmb@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: mailing list archives Message-ID: <199612230950.KAA02236@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <12050.851306689@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Dec 22, 96 06:04:49 pm"
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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. ;-)
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