Nik Conwell wrote: > > On Dec 30, 2008, at 4:43 PM, Shawn Nock wrote: > > [...] > >> a scripted rename of mailboxes to balance partition utilization when we >> add another partition. > > Just curious - how do stop people from accessing their mailboxes during > the time they are being renamed and moved to another partition? >
We don't really bother. We run the script overnight (over several nights) to minimize storage utilization and we haven't run into a problem. I haven't looked at the code in a while, but as I recall the rename operation is fairly atomic. In short: it doesn't take long to move a box. The worst thing that I could imagine would be a momentary outage for a single user (``Mailbox does not exist'' or similar). This sort of error (if it does occur in the wild) would clear almost immediately. Shawn -- Shawn Nock (OpenPGP: 0xFF7D08A3) Unix Systems Group; UITS University of Arizona nock at email.arizona.edu
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