Re: [Dovecot] Updated v1.1 and summer plans
Timo Sirainen, on 5/21/2007 8:54 AM, said the following:
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Upcoming v1.1 features, more or less implemented in this order:
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Hey Timo,
I'm loving all of the new functionality - especially the full support for Shared mailboxes and ACLs... but...
I don't see any mention of support for SiS (single-instance-storage) as discussed previously on the list, even for upcoming 1.2/2.0
Did this fall through a crack? Or did you decide it was going to be too difficult for the time being?
I'd dearly like to get this working, at least for email attachments...
Thanks for your consideration, and thanks so much for dovecot!
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Best regards,
Charles
On Sat, 2007-12-01 at 18:56 -0500, Charles Marcus wrote:
I don't see any mention of support for SiS (single-instance-storage) as discussed previously on the list, even for upcoming 1.2/2.0
Did this fall through a crack? Or did you decide it was going to be too difficult for the time being?
dbox-file.h contains:
/* Pointer to external message data. Format is:
1*(<start offset> <byte count> <ref>) */
DBOX_METADATA_EXT_REF = 'P',That's about all there exists of that feature :) I haven't given up on implementing that, but for now there have been more important things.
On 12/2/2007, Timo Sirainen (tss@iki.fi) wrote:
On Sat, 2007-12-01 at 18:56 -0500, Charles Marcus wrote:
I don't see any mention of support for SiS (single-instance-storage) as discussed previously on the list, even for upcoming 1.2/2.0
Did this fall through a crack? Or did you decide it was going to be too difficult for the time being?
dbox-file.h contains:
/* Pointer to external message data. Format is: 1*(<start offset> <byte count> <ref>) */ DBOX_METADATA_EXT_REF = 'P',That's about all there exists of that feature :) I haven't given up on implementing that, but for now there have been more important things.
Fair enough... but since this one is near and dear to my heart ;)
Do you have any idea as to a time frame for when you might be able to get to it? Are you thinking post v2.0? Even 2.1 or 3.0?
I know its a hard question to answer, so if you just have no idea, thats ok too...
Thanks again -
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Best regards,
Charles
On Sun, Dec 02, 2007 at 10:02:07AM -0500, Charles Marcus wrote:
On 12/2/2007, Timo Sirainen (tss@iki.fi) wrote:
On Sat, 2007-12-01 at 18:56 -0500, Charles Marcus wrote:
I don't see any mention of support for SiS (single-instance-storage) as discussed previously on the list, even for upcoming 1.2/2.0 Did this fall through a crack? Or did you decide it was going to be too difficult for the time being?
dbox-file.h contains: /* Pointer to external message data. Format is: 1*(<start offset> <byte count> <ref>) */ DBOX_METADATA_EXT_REF = 'P', That's about all there exists of that feature :) I haven't given up on implementing that, but for now there have been more important things.
Fair enough... but since this one is near and dear to my heart ;)
Do you have any idea as to a time frame for when you might be able to get to it? Are you thinking post v2.0? Even 2.1 or 3.0?
I know its a hard question to answer, so if you just have no idea, thats ok too...
Thanks again -
Another option to consider is server side deduplication such as the ASIS block-level deduplication offered by NetApp (requires nearstore license). Our site will be migrating to a new netapp cluster that supports dedupe and I will probably use it for mail. Although I doubt it does anything for tape backups, I assume those will be full size. Dovecot is cheaper too :)
On 12/2/2007, Adam McDougall (mcdouga9@egr.msu.edu) wrote:
Another option to consider is server side deduplication such as the ASIS block-level deduplication offered by NetApp (requires nearstore license). Our site will be migrating to a new netapp cluster that supports dedupe and I will probably use it for mail. Although I doubt it does anything for tape backups, I assume those will be full size. Dovecot is cheaper too :)
Well, yeah, that'd be nice, but NetApps are expensive, and my boss wouldn't even consider it... ;) this is a pretty small shop.
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Best regards,
Charles
On Sun, 2007-12-02 at 10:02 -0500, Charles Marcus wrote:
On 12/2/2007, Timo Sirainen (tss@iki.fi) wrote:
On Sat, 2007-12-01 at 18:56 -0500, Charles Marcus wrote:
I don't see any mention of support for SiS (single-instance-storage) as discussed previously on the list, even for upcoming 1.2/2.0
Did this fall through a crack? Or did you decide it was going to be too difficult for the time being?
dbox-file.h contains:
/* Pointer to external message data. Format is: 1*(<start offset> <byte count> <ref>) */ DBOX_METADATA_EXT_REF = 'P',That's about all there exists of that feature :) I haven't given up on implementing that, but for now there have been more important things.
Fair enough... but since this one is near and dear to my heart ;)
Do you have any idea as to a time frame for when you might be able to get to it? Are you thinking post v2.0? Even 2.1 or 3.0?
Right now I just want to get v1.1 finished. The main problem with it is that apparently in some installations it's slower than v1.0 and I haven't yet figured out why. And I want Squat rewrite to be included in it too (almost finished! just committed it to hg).
After v1.1 I'm not sure. I'm more interested in implementing other features first (like v2.0's config rewrite, replication, etc.), but once I'm beginning to run out of money I'll start doing pretty much anything people pay me to do ;)
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Adam McDougall
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Charles Marcus
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Timo Sirainen