> Now I read articles like this one talking about "oh yeah Evolution filled up 100GB of space" like that's no big deal. Is this actually a practical issue thou

> Now I read articles like this one talking about "oh yeah Evolution filled up 100GB of space" like that's no big deal. Is this actually a practical issue though? Windows, Mac and Linux all support transparent compression at the filesystem level, so 100GB of /dev/zero isnt actually going to fill much space at all.