[Dovecot] mbox vs. maildir storage block waste

[Christoph Anton Mitterer]

On Mon, 2012-10-29 at 23:42 +0200, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> > btw: What are the actual advantages of sdbox over maildir?
> 
>  * Not moving files from new/ to cur/ directory
>  * Not renaming files when changing message flags
>  * Not readdir()ing directories (although maildir_very_dirty_syncs=yes helps a lot with this)
> 
> Basically less disk I/O and making it possible to have mailboxes with a huge number of messages without everything slowing down horribly.

Oh that's quite some advantage...

And I guess the interior of the files is the same? I.e. just the plain
mail without any changes or quoting?


For sdbox, does that part with "loosing the indexes means game
over" ;) , too?


Thanks,
Chris
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