[Gllug] RedHat

[Nix]

On Fri, 2 Nov 2001, Walid gibbered:
> That is true for pst files, and also for mbox, If it is large it can get
> corrupted too

Really?

>From another user here (you know who you are):

-rw-rw-r--    1 xxxxxxxx xxxxxxxx 19274574 Nov  2 23:18 .Mailbox

I've seen people elsewhere with 80Mb mbox files. It's sick, and using
them is *s-l-o-w*, but it does work --- assuming your locking is OK; if
it's fscked then a big file is more likely to get smashed simply because
the associated race windows are larger for bigger files.

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