On Fri, 2007-06-29 at 21:49 +0200, Nicolas KOWALSKI wrote: > Timo Sirainen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Fri, 2007-06-29 at 20:26 +0200, Nicolas KOWALSKI wrote: > >> Timo Sirainen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 ! :-)
Just remember that if you lose the index files there's no easy way to recover the mailbox. Well, except by copying the files to maildir.. I'm not sure if I should try to make cydir anything else than a benchmark format or a simple example for writing mail storage backends. I'm hoping that dbox will be practically as fast in all situations.
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