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Bush Administration's E-Mail Deluge May Overload Archive System
Lucas123 writes "The Clinton administration generated 32 million e-mails. Bush's administration has generated 50 times as much data — 140TB, 20TB of which is email — which soon will have to be archived through a new government-built records management system. The new system may not be up to the task because the technology behind it may not be able to handle the sheer volume of data along with the fact that the Bush administration has been slow in providing the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) with needed information about the records, according to a Computerworld story. Questions have also been raised about millions of missing e-mails from between March 2003 and October 2006. 'It wasn't until this summer that an intensive effort began to share information,' said Ken Thibodeau, director of NARA's Electronic Records Archives."
The other 120 TB was probably just Clinton's porn stash that the Bush administration found while purging off records.
32,000,000 * 50 = 1,600,000,000 = 0x5F5E1000
0xFFFFFFFF - 0x5F5E1000 = 0xFA0A1EFF = 4,194,967,295
If they are using unsigned 32 bit quantities, they still have room to index at least nearly 4.2 billion more emails.
Well, to be fair, email wasn't quite as popular during Clinton's administration as it is now.
Good point. I mean hell, Al Gore had just invented the Internet the year prior. Cut the guy some slack.
At the current presidential email growth rate, NTFS isn't gonna cut it for Obama.
Of course that happens when you embed the 1600x1200 raw image of dick cheney giving everyone the finger with each email
Non impediti ratione cogitationus.