Date: Sun, 22 Dec 1996 21:26:17 -0700 (MST) From: Marc Slemko <marcs@znep.com> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: mailing list archives Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.961222211544.13336B-100000@alive.ampr.ab.ca> In-Reply-To: <12050.851306689@time.cdrom.com>
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Since all standard storage formats for mail archives have problems when you are dealing with this volume, how about for now just making a snapshot of the archives as they are right now available somewhere in whatever form they may be stored in. I don't care if I need to ftp a 500 meg file; that's well under an hour if it is coming from wcarchive. <g> Any format will be unmanagable for most people due to sheer volume. If you know what you are looking for, less is a pretty good search utility. On Sun, 22 Dec 1996, 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. Just judging by the mailstats > output and calculating about 90 days ahead, the math does not look > promising. :-) > > Sigh. Face it, we need a database. :-) > > Jordan >
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