[Dovecot] performance of maildir on ocfs2

[Timo Sirainen]

On 1.5.2010, at 0.25, luben karavelov wrote:

> My tests and benchmarks were done using v1.2.11. May be I should make some
> benchmarks for mdbox also using dovecot v2. My understanding is that dbox
> is forward compatible with mdbox and there will be no need to convert
> mailboxes from dbox to mdbox. Is it that ot there will be another pain in
> migrationg mailboxes from one format in another?

v1.2 dbox is similar to v2.0's dbox, but not identical. v2.0 dbox is simpler and faster. Also dbox and mdbox are different, although they share some code. http://wiki.dovecot.org/MailboxFormat/dbox

Anyway, v2.0 is supposed to be able to read v1.2's dbox, but 1) I haven't tested it recently and 2) that's only if the dbox doesn't contain any maildir-migration files (so all mail files are u.* files, no maildir files). I'm kind of hoping the dbox/maildir hybrids aren't all that popular and maybe I don't need to worry about them.. :)