On 8/12/2009 3:58 PM, Timo Sirainen wrote:
- and I've never heard of any other mail server supporting such a thing.
Exchange does... and is the single and only reason I have *considered* switching to it <shudder> in the past few years...
I heard that the next Exchange version drops that feature, because it typically causes more disk I/O when reading. I don't know if it's still possible to enable it optionally though.
Wow... I can hear a lot of sysadmins screaming at the top of their lungs if/when they discover this the hard way.
I'm also having trouble figuring out how using hard links (or their equivalent) for messages with large attachments and having only one instance of the attachment could cause *more* disk I/O than having dozens/hundred of multiple copies of the message.
Guess its an Exchange 'feature'... ;)
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Best regards,
Charles