On Tue, 16 Mar 2010, Tim Mooney wrote:
This brings up a question I've had: both traditional format and MBX run into issues when they cross the 2 GiB boundary, because of signedness issues in the UW code.
Correct. It's not the code so much as it is the system calls; there are separate system calls that have to be used if you want to cross 2GB filesize on a 32-bit OS. It doesn't make much sense to fix because flat files perform so poorly long before you get to that size.
I realize a MIX folder is composed of multiple files, but does that mean that the 2 GiB is not a problem for MIX?
Not until/unless you start dealing with single messages that are larger than 2GB. It will be a while before people start wanting to do that. :) -- Mark -- http://panda.com/mrc Democracy is two wolves and a sheep deciding what to eat for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote. _______________________________________________ Imap-uw mailing list Imap-uw@u.washington.edu http://mailman2.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/imap-uw
