[Dovecot] Design: Optimizations for high-latency storage backend

[Charles Marcus]

On 2009-12-29 2:06 PM, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> Oh, and doing all the prefetching stuff is made a lot easier by
> implementing the filesystem API change I had talked about previously (so
> at least indexes and dbox code would do all FS access via the API). And
> the FS API change will be a lot easier if doesn't need to support things
> like locking or overwriting data, so to do that also requires redesign
> of index files. I don't remember if I wrote specifics of that to this
> mailing list, but I've thought out most of that too. And the index
> redesign is the reason I'm considering v3.0 as the next version number
> after v2.0. (Although v2.1 might also come with some smaller new
> features while I'm also working on v3.0 features.)

Hi Timo,

Thanks for sharing your thoughts/plans about future changes/enhancements
to dovecot like this - I really enjoy reading them, and I'm sure others
do too...

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Best regards,

Charles