[Dovecot] Re: New mailbox format

Quest quest at lysator.liu.se
Tue Oct 4 14:37:26 EEST 2005


On Fri, 23 Sep 2005 11:04:32 -0400, John Peacock <jpeacock at rowman.com> writes:

> I suspect GMail is based on SQL... ;-)

As I understand, it is built on GoogleFS and Google's map/reduce
algorithm for eliminating duplicated storage. There are also some
interesting FOSS hashing implementations optimized for things that
smells like message headers.
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