On Sat, Jun 30, 2007 at 03:16:30PM +0300, Janne Peltonen wrote: > b) run ctl_mboxlist -m -a > Option b) might be more interesting (I haven't tried it out yet). The > man page says that "assume the local mailboxes file is authoritiative, > that is, only change the mupdate server, do not delete any local > mailboxes. USE THIS OPTION WITH CARE, as it allows namespace collisions > into the murder" - now I wonder whether the remote mailbox entries will > still be deleted... Well, I'd better try it out next. Reports to follow.
Well. Running ctl_mboxlist -m -a didn't truncate the mailboxes list, but it took relatively long to complete (21 minutes with only one cluster member doing it - on the other hand, since the ctl_mboxlist wasn't busy writing this time, the time required to do the ctl_mboxlist will probably stay the same regardless of the number of members doing it). Additionally, the -a option really does as it says - the local mailboxes list is authoritative. That is, it's authoritative over the complete murder (which I find very strange) - if I delete a remote folder from the local mailboxes list, then do ctl_mboxlist -m -a, the master records the deletion and propagates it forward... the mailbox disappears from the complete murder. So there seems to be no way to get a unified murder up and running so that there isn't some risk of information loss - actually, I already knew this; there is a constant running risk of information loss if the mailboxes list on a running murder's mupdate master gets corrupted (the corrupted list if propagated to all the members) and the backups are lost. It'd be really really nice if somebody changed the ctl_mboxlist and mupdate slave code so that if the murder config is unified, the local server is authoritative on local mailboxes - and /only/ on local mailboxes. I wonder if it's too late to convert my murder to a traditional one... --Janne ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
