>>>>> On Thu, 3 Nov 2011, Andreas K Huettel wrote: > On Donnerstag 03 November 2011 10:16:53 Michael Haubenwallner wrote:
>> As we do have the "$delay before breaking old" period, usually with >> $delay="1 year": Should we also apply this $delay to the output of >> above command? > Makes all perfect sense... however I suggest to agree on a general > scheme and go ahead manually first if implementation and/or > discussion of its details or planned features is lingering... How about this: - Possible split points are only at the end of years. - Start at the end of the file and go backwards. - Split it whenever the piece after the split point is larger than $size. - Stop if the next split point is less than $delay ago. Reasonable values are 50 or 100 KiB for $size and 1 year for $delay, IMHO. ulrich