Skiplist vs Berkley db

[Ken Murchison]

Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> 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?

It wouldn't go away by itself, but you could remove it.


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