8 Nov
2011
8 Nov
'11
5 p.m.
On 8.11.2011, at 16.03, Morten Stevens wrote:
We have switched our mailbox storage format from maildir to mdbox!
Maildir is a disaster. (too many small files) After the migration to mdbox the performance has improved significantly.
Conclusion: mdbox is great and much better performance than maildir! I would also recommend ext4.
You don't happen to have any specific numbers/graphs that can be used to compare maildir vs. mdbox in the same hardware? I'd be interested in seeing those, such as a graph of disk iops spanning a month before/after mdbox switch.