[Dovecot] Scalability plans: Abstract out filesystem and make it someone else's problem

Seth Mattinen sethm at rollernet.us
Tue Aug 11 00:33:09 EEST 2009


Timo Sirainen wrote:
> This is something I figured out a few months ago, mainly because this
> one guy at work (hi, Stu) kept telling me my multi-master replication
> plan sucked and we should use some existing scalable database. (I guess
> it didn't go exactly like that, but that's the result anyway.)
> 

Ick, some people (myself included) hate the idea of storing mail in a 
database versus simple and almost impossible to screw up plain text 
files of maildir. Cyrus already does the whole mail-in-database thing.

~Seth


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