On Wed, 2009-10-14 at 23:04 +0200, Mikkel wrote:
So basically you prefer mdbox but are maintaining dbox because of its almost lockless design which is better for NFS users?
Do you consider it to be viable having two different dbox formats or are you planning to keep only one of them in a long term perspective?
I'm planning on keeping both of them. And it's not necessarily only because of NFS users. Multi-dbox was done mainly because filesystems suck (mailbox gets fragmented all around the disk). Maybe if filesystems in future suck less, single-dbox will be better. Or perhaps SSDs make the fragmentation problem mostly irrelevant.
And note that there are no real world statistics on how much faster multi-dbox is compared to single-dbox (or maildir). Maybe the difference isn't all that big after all. Or maybe it's a lot bigger than I thought. I've no idea.