Skiplist vs Berkley db

[Ken Murchison]

Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Apr 2006, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, 19 Apr 2006, John Hampton wrote:
>>
>>> barsalou wrote:
>>>> What I was wondering is....can someone help list the pro's and cons 
>>>> of skiplist and Bdb?
>>>
>>> I found the following link to be very helpful
>>>
>>> http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki/bin/view/Cyrus/WhatDatabaseBackend
>>
>> 'k, just read this, thx ... first question I have is what is 
>> /var/spool/imap/db?  mboxlist?  nothing else on that page appears 
>> appropriate, but just want to make sure ...
> 
> Oh, and what about the cyrus.* files within the mailbox itself:
> 
> # file cyrus.*
> cyrus.cache:  data
> cyrus.header: data
> cyrus.index:  data

These are proprietary formats which are not related to the cyrusdb 
formats.  If you're interested in cyrus.*, have a look at 
doc/internal/mailbox-format.html


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Kenneth Murchison
Systems Programmer
Project Cyrus Developer/Maintainer
Carnegie Mellon University