On 28 July 2010 21:49, Dimi Paun <d...@lattica.com> wrote: > On Wed, 2010-07-28 at 13:05 -0700, Dan Kegel wrote:
>> Creating new wiki pages seems broken today... > Yes, due to all the spam, we've hit the ext3 limit > of subdirectories (32k). More here: > http://www.rooftopsolutions.nl/blog/135 > I'm looking into how we can clean this up. Ubuntu hit this one: https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/moin/+bug/217191 http://moinmo.in/MoinMoinBugs/AllPagesSavedToSingleDirectory The other solution is permanent deletion of the spam pages from the actual file system. I've done such pruning before, and it needs (obviously) to be done with *remarkable* care. It's also very fiddly. I eventually cobbled together scripts to do the deletion for me. (At an old workplace, I don't have them to hand.) The MoinMoin page above lists maintenance scripts that can do it for you. They also suggest moving the wiki directories to a filesystem that can allow stupid amounts of directories, like XFS. (Even ext4 only scales to 64,000 directories.) MoinMoin 2.0 will apparently use a database instead of flat files. ETA: some time or other in the far future. "we can't tell exactly when the new storage stuff will be production ready, but I expect end 2008 .. mid 2009." Ahem. Oh, and moinmo.in regards this as not being a "bug", but the result of bad file system design. (And not, e.g., a wiki that doesn't scale.) - d.