Russell Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Right, and any scalable email system is going to use NFS. Therefore
> the question in my mind is not "What should be used for large folders
> instead of Maildirs?" but instead "What must be done to make Maildirs
> more efficient"? One way to do that would be for Dan to change the
> Maildir specification so that a Maildir may have multiple "cur"
> directories. Then, keep a CDB containing a subset of the message
> headers.
Doesn't the CDB file then require some trickery to avoid the necessity of
locks for multiple writers? Locks for the CDB would defeat the main benefit
of Maildirs. Or perhaps I misunderstand.
Charles
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