Tren Blackburn wrote:
-----Original Message-----
From: DAve [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2007 12:13 PM
To: vchkpw@inter7.com
Subject: Re: [vchkpw] Shared libvpopmail thoughts
Tom Collins wrote:
On Sep 25, 2007, at 10:06 AM, John Simpson wrote:
the idea of splitting the domains and mailboxes into different
directories has been around forever, there's no excuse for somebody
to
not have made the adjustment by now.
I'm all for keeping it, but someone should fix it. On my server,
with a
cdb backend, I have the following structure:
main directory: 65 domains
0: 25 domains
1: 2 domains
2: 2 domains
3: 0 domains
4: 3 domains
5: 44 domains
Just for reference, here's the .dir-control file for that server:
116
0
3
0 0 0
61 61 61
0 2 2
5 0 0
5
I'd love to see vadddomain do a better job of back-filling domains.
Maybe vadddomain and vdeldomain could work together to keep
directories
at a balanced level.
Keep track of the next directory to fill in a file (which needs to
be
protected by a file lock). The .dir-control file is supposed to
work
that way.
On vdeldomain, if the domain came out of a directory "less than" the
next_directory, update next_directory.
On vadddomain, if next_directory has 100 domains after the addition,
scan forward until you find a directory with <100 domains and update
next_directory.
It should be possible to make the code generalized enough to work
for
the domains directory and the individual domain directories (for
managing users via vuseradd and vuserdel).
dir-control is a train wreck. If we ever left vpopmail (unlikely) it
would be because of dir-control. I'm not a C programmer but I have
lots
of coding experience with IBM Basic, JCL, COBOL, Perl, PHP, Ruby,
JavaScript, Bash, etc. Trying to figure out dir-control gave me a
headache and I never did get anyone to own up to knowing how it
worked.
If someone would fix it, I would provide a 6 pack of Jones (any
flavor),
a carton of Marlborough reds, some tokens, a Magic Eight Ball, and a
big
bag of twizzlers to sweeten the deal.
Dave
Oooh! That's a sweet deal...I'll throw in a 6 pack of Beer from Canada
from the brewery of your choice!
Traction! Finally! I'll up the ante to guaranteed 24 hour turn around on
testing any fixes, I'll setup a VMWare server just so I can test any
patches.
But that's not all... I will also throw in a pristine copy of a Mac
rescue CD with all OSes from 7.1 to 8.6 including all patches, AND
bottle of Jose Gold. Shipped of course, at no cost to the programmer who
fixes dir-control.
DAve
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