On Wed, 2009-10-14 at 23:04 +0200, Mikkel wrote: > So basically you prefer mdbox but are maintaining dbox because of its > almost lockless design which is better for NFS users? > > Do you consider it to be viable having two different dbox formats or are > you planning to keep only one of them in a long term perspective?
I'm planning on keeping both of them. And it's not necessarily only because of NFS users. Multi-dbox was done mainly because filesystems suck (mailbox gets fragmented all around the disk). Maybe if filesystems in future suck less, single-dbox will be better. Or perhaps SSDs make the fragmentation problem mostly irrelevant. And note that there are no real world statistics on how much faster multi-dbox is compared to single-dbox (or maildir). Maybe the difference isn't all that big after all. Or maybe it's a lot bigger than I thought. I've no idea.
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