[Dovecot] mailbox format w/ separate headers/data

[Timo Sirainen]

On 22.1.2010, at 23.39, Frank Cusack wrote:

> On January 22, 2010 11:21:09 PM +0200 Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> wrote:
>>> Or will there be a global index?
>> 
>> Yes. That's what dbox SIS is about. You have a global repository of
>> (large) MIME parts, indexed by their SHA1 sum (or something).
> 
> In the case of zfs then, the filesystem may as well do the dedup'ing.

Or "dbox may as well do the deduping"? :) I guess it comes down to whose algorithm is fastest. I suppose they're more or less the same, if it's possible to tell zfs to dedup files only in /mail/attachments/ directory (I guess you can create a separate filesystem for that).