2003-02-19T17:11:40 George Kahler:
Can the filer 4K blocks be fragmented ? ie, will a small email message end up using one 4K block no matter what ?
I don't know the answer to that question, but have you checked to see if any significant fraction of your user's messages are actually less than 4KB? The headers alone of your query as it reached me were 3,125 bytes; the message as a whole was 4,063 bytes. Yours was a short text/plain, an increasingly rare phenomenon.
It would be great if you could point your IMAP client at the .snapshot directory and treat it just as another folder to then copy messages to the real folder.
I think all that should be required to allow that would be a script to create suitably symlinks from the user's main imap folder into the snapshot folders, no? Such could be run out of cron.
-Bennett