On Fri, 14 Jan 2000, Russell Nelson wrote:
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.
Why multiple "cur" directories? I'm guessing that you're trying to avoid
rebuilding a large CDB when any cachable item changes. Why not simply use
multiple CDB's in a single directory instead? Select a CDB by hashing the
file names.
I'm also presuming that the CDB will be indexed by something like the
message file name. How efficient are things like string searches going to
be in that case? My dream states include things like results of previous
searches being cached (I have several large folders that I search on the
same subset of strings frequently). How would you do that with a CDB?
Thanks,
-- Jeff Hayward
