[Dovecot] Compressed maildir

Dominic Marks dom at goodforbusiness.co.uk
Wed Jun 15 13:48:39 EEST 2005


On Wednesday 15 June 2005 09:24, Curtis Maloney wrote:
> Farkas Levente wrote:
> > in this case it'd be better to use some kind of compressed
> > filesystem:
> > http://lists.q-linux.com/pipermail/plug/2002-September/020687.html
>
> Which might be of some use, if I were running Linux.  I'm not.

What are you using? If its FreeBSD, you could use the md device.

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?mdconfig

You can use this to create a vnode (file) backed memory disc,
put your maildirs, and whatever else you like in it and it
will be compressed.

> Next?
>
> --
> Curtis

HTH,
-- 
Dominic
GoodforBusiness.co.uk
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