Re: Wiki, information on database back ends.

2010-09-15 Thread Jeroen van Meeuwen (Kolab Systems)
Dan White wrote: The current imapd.conf hints at the available data types for each cyrus database. Depending on the option, the following database types are available (in 2.3.16): (...snip...) I don't know why the (rpm) upgrade script chose skiplist as an intermediate format, rather than

Re: Wiki, information on database back ends.

2010-09-15 Thread Dan White
On 15/09/10 21:19 +0200, Jeroen van Meeuwen (Kolab Systems) wrote: As far as skiplist, that seems to be a proprietary format. skiplist: ? http://git.cyrusimap.org/cyrus-imapd/tree/lib/cyrusdb_skiplist.c is the implementation of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skip_list inspired by

Re: Wiki, information on database back ends.

2010-09-14 Thread Jeroen van Meeuwen (Kolab Systems)
Patrick Goetz wrote: On 09/14/2010 02:24 PM, Patrick Goetz wrote: This raises a number of questions, though: I forgot to add: 4. The Redhat script uses a file called /usr/share/cyrus-imapd/rpm/db.cfg Presumably this is specific to the redhat package, since I can't find a db.cfg file

Re: Wiki, information on database back ends.

2010-09-14 Thread Patrick Goetz
On 09/14/2010 04:06 PM, Jeroen van Meeuwen (Kolab Systems) wrote: This file is also written out by the same script. The location of the script (the mentioning of 'rpm/' in the path) is completely arbitrary (for all the script cares the file lives in /boot/). Small correction: created while

Re: Wiki, information on database back ends.

2010-09-14 Thread Dave McMurtrie
Patrick Goetz wrote: On 09/14/2010 02:35 PM, Dave McMurtrie wrote: On 09/14/2010 03:24 PM, Patrick Goetz wrote: The flip side of this is that you are now welcome and encouraged to change that. I'd be happy to write up some stuff as soon as I have answers to some of my questions (i.e. as

Re: Wiki, information on database back ends.

2010-09-14 Thread Bron Gondwana
On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 03:04:33PM -0500, Patrick Goetz wrote: On 09/14/2010 02:35 PM, Dave McMurtrie wrote: On 09/14/2010 03:24 PM, Patrick Goetz wrote: The flip side of this is that you are now welcome and encouraged to change that. I'd be happy to write up some stuff as soon as I