[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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