>>>>> "MM" == Marc MERLIN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
MM> Just for the record, Sourceforge just hit the 16,000 lists MM> limit today and broke because ext2fs doesn't support more than MM> 32,000 links to a directory (archives/private had 32,000 MM> archive dirs) I'm told freebsd's UFS has similar problems. Wow, neat! Not for you, but neat. :) MM> Of course, that can be fixed with Residerfs/XFS/name your FS MM> here or archives/private/l/li/listname{,.mbox} but my point MM> was that if you create a directory for each attachment, you're MM> going to hit the 32,000 limit very quickly. Ah, so /that's/ why we have /home/groups/m/ma/mailman... :) MM> As far as I know, most FS don't handle hundreds of thousands MM> of files in the same dir very well, but at least they handle MM> it. Don't worry, we're not talking about a directory for each attachment, but a directory for each message with an attachment. Hmm, maybe we /should/ worry! 32k messages with attachments sure doesn't seem all that many. Hmm, have to think about it. -Barry _______________________________________________ Mailman-Developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-developers