Skiplist vs Berkley db

[Marc G. Fournier]

On Thu, 20 Apr 2006, Ken Murchison wrote:

> 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 ...
>
> AFAIK, there is no such thing as /var/spool/imap/db (not in the IMAP spool). 
> There will be something like /var/imap/db (in configdir), which is the BDB 
> environment directory.

I have my imapd.conf file setup to point to /var/spool/imap ... not sure 
why I did this, but I've had it like this forever now ... same as the 
default /var/imap ...

So, based on the above ... if I were to switch *everything* to skiplist, 
then that directory would go away?

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