[Dovecot] mbox vs maildir

Nicolas KOWALSKI nicolas.kowalski at gmail.com
Fri Jun 29 22:49:14 EEST 2007


Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> writes:

> On Fri, 2007-06-29 at 20:26 +0200, Nicolas KOWALSKI wrote:
>> Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> writes:
>> 
>> > The upcoming dbox and cydir formats of course beat everything in
>> > performance :)
>> 
>> cydir ? Does this mean there is a cyrus-like storage coming soon ?
>
> Already in v1.1 tree. It's what I'm using for my index file stress
> tests, because the format is practically just the index files and
> "<uid>." named files.

I just read http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2007-May/022772.html,
and the results look really impressive. 10 times faster than
Maildir... 

Time to upgrade and test ! :-)

Thanks Timo,
-- 
Nicolas


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