-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 06/28/2011 07:29 PM, Charles Marcus wrote: > On 2011-06-28 12:13 PM, Davide Vaghetti wrote: >> mail_location = mdbox:/var/vmail/%-1.1u/%u/mdbox >> >> and I want to switch to >> >> mail_location = >> mdbox:/var/vmail/%-1.1u/%u/mdbox:INDEX=/var/indexes/%-1.1u/%u/ >> >> But I cannot figure out a pair of things: >> >> - - do the switch trigger the rebuilding of the index files? >> >> - - can I get rid of all the old index files? > > I'm by no means an expert, but with that many users I think if you > did this in one shot (all indexes being rebuilt simultaneously as > users logged in) your system would slow to a crawl... > > I would first rsync the existing indexes over live, then stop > dovecot, do another quick rsync of the indexes, then make the change > and restart dovecot... > > That will minimize the impact (rebuilding of indexes)... >
Good hint! Thank you. What about the index grow factor? Do some of you folks have any idea about that (no ftp squat)? bye davide - -- Dott. Davide Vaghetti Centro Servizi Informatici Facolta' di Ingegneria Universita' di Pisa PGP: http://keys.keysigning.org:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x7A1B3BA18C4E0A4D -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk4LSr0ACgkQehs7oYxOCk2iBwCfbcygrvBaO4JJFAtgTb9fXwZg FPMAoI/yZFborIJH+U3gTx28In602H7k =pHbw -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
