On 8.11.2011, at 16.03, Morten Stevens wrote: > We have switched our mailbox storage format from maildir to mdbox! > > Maildir is a disaster. (too many small files) After the migration to mdbox > the performance has improved significantly. > > Conclusion: mdbox is great and much better performance than maildir! I would > also recommend ext4.
You don't happen to have any specific numbers/graphs that can be used to compare maildir vs. mdbox in the same hardware? I'd be interested in seeing those, such as a graph of disk iops spanning a month before/after mdbox switch.
