Not as good as the ones Ulrich posted
over here but pretty impressive too.
We took one of our main mail and application cluster servers offline because we replaced the hardware and i got the chance to play around a little bit with DAOSEST 1.1.
This is a server that has truly grown through all the years. With the data stored on multiple linked devices, it was the one where i truly was not shure if this great piece of software would run.
Here are the results after running roundabout 40 hours.
Total DB’s analyzed: 1187
Total DB’s skipped due to errors: 13
Total Size of NSF’s Examined: 916.1 GB
Total Attachments found: 2243058
Total Duplicate Attachments found: 1298800
Total DAOS Eligible Attachments: 2243058
Estimated Size of DAOSified NSF’s: 250.5 GB
Estimate Size of DAOS dir: 261.7 GB
Total Disk Savings: 439.8 GB
Wow.
And yes i believe that people are living in their mail system by looking at those numbers. And it seems that giving them access to a decent file system solution, using teamrooms and quickr does not help stopping them from still storing everything in their email application.