Bob Tanner <tanner at real-time.com> wrote:
> 
> My first problem is several of the mailing lists have mbox-es
> approaching the magical 2Gb size. The work around of that will be to go
> reiserfs or ext3 for the large file support.

ext2 can handle large files just fine if you have a 2.4.x kernel, glibc
2.2.x, and appropriately compiled programs.  I think the restrictions are
the same for ext3 and reiserfs.  GFS was the only filesystem I knew of
that would do it on 2.2 kernels.

If you used something that created a file per message, I'd look hard at
reiserfs.

Otherwise, your database idea sounds good, but I don't know of any mailing
list software that use them..

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