On 8.2.2011, at 9.42, Javier Miguel Rodríguez wrote:

>    I am writing to this mailing list to thanks Timo for dovecot 2 & mdbox. We 
> have almost 30.000 active users and our life was sad with Maildir & backup: 
> 24 hours for a full backup  with bacula (zlib enabled maildirs, 1.4 TB). 
> After switching to mdbox, the backup time is under 12 hours ! Instead of 
> backing 17 millions files, with mdbox our backup is only of 1 million files, 
> and that speeds up a lot the backup operation.

Hmm. I guess if you were doing backups 24h/day, then you can't really say how 
much faster mdbox performs than maildir (outside backups)?

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