> On Fri, 2009-01-09 at 08:57 -0600, Matt Brookings wrote:
>> This would not work because users can be deleted out of the hash tree
>> anywhere. It appears your patch assumes a FILO ordering of user
>> additions
>> and deletions.
> I have not been able to explain properly. It would be FIFO.
>
>> If the hashes, 'a' through 'd' existed, and the 'b' hash directory
>> cleared
>> out, your method would fail to backfill correctly.
> Let's take an example
> suppose
> there are 100 users (with 100 directories) in /var/vpopmail/domains
> there are 100 users (with 100 directories) in /var/vpopmail/domains/0
> there are 100 users (with 100 directories) in /var/vpopmail/domains/1
> there are 100 users (with 100 directories) in /var/vpopmail/domains/2
> there are 50 users (with 50 direcotires) in /var/vpopmail/domains/3
>
> Now let say I delete a user who has a directory
> in /var/vpopmail/domains/1
> The backfill code will put the entry '1' in the first line in the file
> dir_control_free.
> Also let us say that we delete two users in /var/vpopmail/domains/2
> The backfill code in vdeluser will put entry '2' twice in the file
> dir_control_free
>
> So after deleting 3 users, the file dir_control_free will have 3 lines
> 1
> 2
> 2
>
>
> So now we have 99 users in /var/vpopmail/domains/1
> and we have 98 users in /var/vpopmail/domains/2
>
> Now the modified vadduser will call a function called backfill() which
> will open this file, lock the file and pickup the first line, delete the
> line and return the value as user_hash
>
> #ifdef USERS_BIG_DIR
> /* go into a user hash dir if required */
> if (!(user_hash = backfill(domain)))
> {
> open_big_dir(domain, uid, gid);
> user_hash = next_big_dir(uid, gid);
> close_big_dir(domain, uid, gid);
> chdir(user_hash);
> }
> #endif
>
> Each time the function backfill() is called it will deplete the file
> dir_control_free by one line and will always return the first line as
> the user_hash. When all lines get depleted, backfill() will return NULL
> in which case the regular dir_control will again come into effect and
> start from where it had left earlier.
>
> The advantage of this method is that you can use the find command to
> generate the missing directories in dir_control_free to catch up with
> the actual dir_control.
>
> Another way to explain this is that when backfill is in operation,
> dir_control stops working and when backfill() gets depleted and stops
> working, dir_control starts working
>
>
>
>
>
Can someone please provide a brief discussion as to when a vpopmail hashed
folder tree becomes "big enough" to warrant backfilling? Or, is "big"
just one concern amongst others such as: "rate of deletes and adds",
"filesystem choice"...
I'm not quite picking up why the backfill is important.
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