[Mailman-Developers] Requirements for a new archiver

Barry Warsaw barry at python.org
Wed Oct 29 23:27:46 EST 2003


On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 22:06, Chuq Von Rospach wrote:

> It's just so much less hassle on any number of levels dealing with 50 
> 100 megabyte files than it is a directory structure with 500 megabytes 
> of messages spread around 100,000 individual files. whether it's 
> backups and restores, migrating data to a new server, etc, etc etc, you 
> make life much simpler. And god help you if you're updating that 
> structure when the system crashes and you have to fsck and put it back 
> together again.

We should just throw everything into a ZODB FileStorage Data.fs file,
and let it grow to gigs in size <1/2 wink>.

-Barry





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