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

[Timo Sirainen]

On Mon, 2009-09-28 at 22:20 +0100, Ed W wrote:
> Timo Sirainen wrote:
> >
> > The SQL code was for v1.0 and the lib-storage API has been simplified
> > since then, maybe not hugely but still pretty much. Maybe some day I'll
> > see about updating the SQL code for v2.0 API.
> >
> > Oh and some documentation about it would probably help a lot too. I
> > guess I should write some, someday. :)
> >   
> 
> 
> Some overview docs might be somewhat helpful for sure, but I think at 
> this level you probably mainly need to get your hands dirty

I was thinking something that would describe what kind of groups of
functions there exist ("mailbox listing", "mailbox opening", "message
saving", etc.) and what functions need to be used to properly call them.

> Having an example storage engine which is also a bit simpler (eg an 
> updated sql engine) would actually be quite good for this I suspect.

You mean "a bit different" :) Cydir already is the simplest storage
engine there is.
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