[Dovecot] DoveCot compression to save HDD space

Charles Marcus CMarcus at Media-Brokers.com
Wed Feb 14 16:42:07 UTC 2007


>> I'd *much* rather see work done on 'single-instance-storage' support, 
>> ala cyrus... that would do far more, in most setups, than compressing 
>> files - without adding any overhead, which compression definitely would do.

> It's been somewhat planned for dbox format. No idea when though.

I'll take 'planned' over 'no' any day... :)

> With maildir I suppose it's possible with hardlinks, but that's a bit
> kludgy.

Do you know if that is how cyrus does it?

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Best regards,

Charles


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