2 Sep
2008
2 Sep
'08
3:04 p.m.
On 9/2/2008, Chris Burton (Chris@7of9b.org) wrote:
Also just to let you know I've now compressed the maildir (a split of gzip/bzip2 depending on which saved the most) which has reduced it from 38GB to 23GB with some 1.8MB files being compressed down to 36KB (emailed tiff files don't ask) which saves a lot in disk access as well as disk space.
wow... but I wonder what the cost is in performance?
Most of the mail compressed was from 2001-2007 and has been moved into an "archive" mail account which only 2/3 people currently have access to and I can't see it getting that much use so performance was of little concern in this instance.
ChrisB.