[Dovecot] mbox vs maildir

[Timo Sirainen]

On Fri, 2007-06-29 at 21:49 +0200, Nicolas KOWALSKI wrote:
> Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> writes:
> 
> > On Fri, 2007-06-29 at 20:26 +0200, Nicolas KOWALSKI wrote:
> >> Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> writes:
> >> 
> >> > The upcoming dbox and cydir formats of course beat everything in
> >> > performance :)
> >> 
> >> cydir ? Does this mean there is a cyrus-like storage coming soon ?
> >
> > Already in v1.1 tree. It's what I'm using for my index file stress
> > tests, because the format is practically just the index files and
> > "<uid>." named files.
> 
> I just read http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2007-May/022772.html,
> and the results look really impressive. 10 times faster than
> Maildir... 
> 
> Time to upgrade and test ! :-)

Just remember that if you lose the index files there's no easy way to
recover the mailbox. Well, except by copying the files to maildir..

I'm not sure if I should try to make cydir anything else than a
benchmark format or a simple example for writing mail storage backends.
I'm hoping that dbox will be practically as fast in all situations.


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