> On 2012-09-25 19:05, Simon Beale wrote: >> The only gotcha I experienced was I forgot that cyrus was configured to >> hardlink mail, which of course was no longer the case after each mailbox >> was migrated, so my disk usage exploded. (But easily fixed/restored once >> identified). > > What did you use for restoring the hardlinks? freedup as well? > > I'm asking because I found a bug in freedup causing dataloss. I already > sent a patch fixing it to the author of freedup last november, but he > didn't release a new version yet. > > In case cyr_expire is running while freedup tries to hardlink files it is > possible to loose both the source freedup wants to link to and the copy > freedup still removes on error. Running cyr_expire and freedup (up to > 1.6-2) together is a really bad idea. > > If it's of interest I can provide my patch here, too. Hi, I have not used freedup for restoring the hardlinks but I'm interested in the patch. If it's not big could you post it here? Thanks, Simon ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/ To Unsubscribe: https://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/info-cyrus
