[Dovecot] performance of maildir on ocfs2

[Timo Sirainen]

On Mon, 2010-04-26 at 15:51 +0300, karavelov wrote:

> 3. My understanding is that OCFS2 uses a global lock for move/rename.
> As you know, Maildir format uses a lot of such operations. I think
> that
> dbox format (dovecot native) will be better choice, because there are
> no file moves/renames. I am planning migration to dbox now. If I have
> to start the service now, I would choose dbox for mail storage. 

Wonder what the performance difference is then between v2.0's
single-dbox and multi-dbox? I'd guess mdbox is faster.

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