--On Wednesday, April 18, 2007 04:03:47 PM +0200 Eric Luyten <Eric.Luyten@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Cyrus 2.2.13 on a Solaris 9 server
4 Cyrus spool partitions, 350 GB each, nearing 80% occupation
(Hashing performed on first letter basis of account name)
I have two extra 350 GB partitions ready and 'partition' lines
already added to /etc/imapd.conf
To spread out the mail data over six partitions I would need
to move about 350 GB of mail.
Two scenarios :
a) use rename_mailbox in cyradm
pro : mail server can keep on running
cons : filesystem metadata changes
no 'batching' method available (suggestions, anyone ?)
slow
b) use 'cp -p -r', update a text dump of mailboxes.db and regenerate
pros : filesystem metadata does not change
easily batchable
significantly faster than method a)
con : mail server must be halted for (at least) several hours
Am I overlooking important issues here ?
Some time ago we wrote a perl script for evenly redistriubting our users to new spool partitions. I posted the following message, which has the script attached:
<http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/archive/message.php?mailbox=archive.info-cyrus&searchterm=rieder&msg=39998> Maybe it helps. Didi -- --------------------------------- Didi Rieder adrieder@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx PGPKey ID: 3431D0B0 ---------------------------------
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