Re: akonadi and being nfs-friendly

Rex Dieter <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.kde.users.pim
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Anne Wilson wrote:

> On Thursday 24 November 2011 14:23:28 Anne Wilson wrote:
>> Am Donnerstag, 24. November 2011, 08:58:20 schrieb Pablo Sanchez:
>> > [ Comments below, in-line ]
>> > 
>> > On Thursday, November 24, 2011 at 08:37 AM, [email protected] penned
>> > about Re: [kdepim-users] KMail SLLLLOOOOOWWWWWW
>> > 
>> > > Is KMail now storing emails in a DATABASE???? If so, how the heck do
>> > > I switch back to plain old file-based email????
>> > 
>> > Howdy,
>> > 
>> > It's my /limited/ understanding that only metadata is stored in a
>> > (MySQL) database.
>> 
>> nope... in KDE 4.7, the *body* of the mails is in the database as well.
>> 
> That is not what I understood from talking with some of the developers.
> 
>> and that database is in ~/ which is on a nfs in my case, and innodb on
>> nfs is a bad idea, and the kde ppl say so themselves, but still do it.
>> 
> Yes, there are known problems with nfs home directories. 

Switching or configuring akonadi backends is relatively simple these days, 
alternatives that are more nfs-friendly include sqlite (what I use @ my site 
with nfs) or using an external mysql db (a little more work).

kcmshell4 akonadi

'Akonadi Server Configuration' tab

-- rex


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