On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 5:38 PM, Peter Funk <issues@roundup-tracker.org> wrote:
> Peter Funk <pefu@users.sourceforge.net> added the comment:
>> we're a little surprised it writes these bits of text
>> out to the file system instead of storing them in the database.
>> Why was it done that way?
> messages and attached files are of arbitrary size.  The design decision
> to keep these files in the file system was made by the original author
> Ka-Ping Yee over 10 years ago.

Ping's original motivation was to make the text searchable using grep.
A number of aspects of Roundup have changed since he made that
decision (and I implemented it).