Hashing database files?

[Rob Siemborski]

On Fri, 24 Oct 2003, Bill Earle wrote:

> - I hope this isn't the case.

Why not?

> What configure option or patch is required to has the deliverdb's?
> Will hashing work with all 2 types of databse files, flat, DBD
> and skiplist?

There isn't any.

> Has anyone done this with mailboxes.db?

This would probably be a really bad idea, given the way that mailboxes.db
is accessed.

> Would the configure option --enable-fulldirhash have any effect
> on the db's?

No.

-Rob

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