Curtis Maloney wrote:
Greetings,
I noticed a while back someone posted a patch/plugin that allowedDovecot to use compressed mbox files. I'm now wondering how far that would put us from having compressed maildir? I have a server with more CPU than disk space, and while I can buy more HDD space, my backup solution doesn't make that practical.
It seems to me that when looking for a message file, if it ends in.gz unpack it, and otherwise everything acts as normal. Worst case, this is one strcat() and a stat() slower to find.
Newly delivered messages could remain unpacked, and a cron job could come by whenever to compress old/large/un-looked-at-for-months messages. So, new and frequently referenced messages would be as fast as ever, and older messages would be slower.
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
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