On Thu, 12 Jul 2007, Wesley Craig wrote:
> 1) Mailbox renames are rare
Accept on the first of the month.
We've been running with my original fast rename patch for about 3 years
now and the race condition has never been a problem. Admittedly its been
about 4 years since our machine room UPS last decided to spot weld itself
to the floor, but an electrician did manage to kill power to 5 racks of my
equipment including the active mailstores without adverse side effects.
It is an imapd.conf option (fast_rename: yes), and is off by default.
3) The sys admin can always fix the problem by hand (and it would
be possible to log all renames to make it easier to spot problems).
Perhaps we should add the new name to the mboxlist first, and then
remove the old name. That way, even in a power loss case, the user
would have access to their mail, either with the old name or the new
name, depending on whether the rename succeeded.
The new name is already added to the mboxlist (as a reserved item). Two
mailbox entries should certainly work, but there isn't (AFAIK) a tool to
remove single entries from the mboxlist: you have to dump and restore. I
suppose that it wouldn't be hard to write one.
Two other benefits of fast rename:
Expunged messages and index files are also moved.
It should make replication more reliable
delayed_delete.patch
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How does it compare to this:
https://bugzilla.andrew.cmu.edu/show_bug.cgi?id=2871
Yes, I saw that (the style of mailbox names will look rather familiar :).
My version leaves the deleted mailboxes in mboxlist (invisible to normal
users). This means:
1) admin users can see the deleted mailboxes and just rename them back
into the live mailbox space:
DELETED/453f56443/user/dpc22/foo -> user/dpc22/foo
2) We can use cyr_expire to remove deleted mailboxes as well as expunged
messages, which seems to be an open issue in your version. Presumably
Umich use some kind of external utility to clear away old mailboxes?
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