[Dovecot] dbox redesign

[Steffen Kaiser]

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On Thu, 12 Feb 2009, Allen Belletti wrote:

> I would add that having fewer, larger files should make backups much
> more feasible.  There's a certain amount of overhead for each file

That's true for full backups. I don't defend Maildir, esp. because it 
changes the filename, which is a new file for any backup software (which 
are usually not Maildir aware in my case).

> operation (especially for us GFS people!) and reducing the number of
> files will reduce that overhead.

Also, makes partial recoveries problematic.

> Right now our backups (done via rsync) take a pretty scary amount of

Yep.

Bye,

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Steffen Kaiser
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