Skiplist vs Berkley db

[Marc G. Fournier]

On Thu, 20 Apr 2006, Ken Murchison wrote:

> 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.

'k ... just to make sure that I fully understand though ... as long as I 
use Berkeley DB for *anything*, that directory needs to exist ... ?  For 
instance, if duplicate_db == db3?

Basically, I'm going to look at switching over to using the configuration 
recommended on the WhatDatabaseBackend page, which means using 
berkeley(_nosync) ...

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