Compression

Enable compression on Dovecot storage

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I’ve just discovered than compression can be applied on Dovecot mail storage. Truth is I used to run the delivery via Postfix. Now that I use OpenSMTPD and Dovecot LMTP to deliver the mail, those can be compressed for write (LMTP) and read (IMAP) process. Here’s how.

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ZFS explained and demoed (briefly)

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ZFS may be Yet Another File System. To me, ZFS is Zee File System brought by Sun Solaris. It is remarkable because it comes with numerous interesting features. To name a few: redundancy, checksum, compression, deduplication, snapshots. This article is a kind of cheat sheet on what is ZFS, how it is organized and how to build a consistent storage area using this particular file system. It is mostly an attempt to clarify and write down what I read about ZFS and how it has to be used to achieve various storage goals.

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Enable gzip compression on OpenBSD’s Apache

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OpenBSD ships with Apache 1.3.x. It is better, faster, stronger, etc… but it isn’t compression-capable by default (AFAIK). Here are the directions to enable compression for all your Web resources:

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