On Sat, 23 Jun 2007, Mark Crispin wrote:
The solution is not to make the problem worse by allowing flat files to be larger than 2GB. That just increases the costs of doing anything with the file, and makes the file even more vulnerable to corruption.
PS: I have been asked by beleagured server managers, who have trouble doing backups of their IMAP servers because of huge flat files, NOT to remove the 2GB limit on flat files. The primary instigation of the mix format was in fact to solve the backup problem. The greatly increased performance is a side benefit.
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