Re: split archive into subdirectories, retaining threads

[Earl Hood <earl@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On October 13, 2004 at 11:11, Simon Bowden wrote:

> This necessarily needs to be split into subdirectories (32k directory 
> entry limit). However, threading is critical to the purpose of this 
> archive, so I can't afford to implement the usual solution of a separate 
> archive per month, because threads don't persist between months.
> 
> Is this possible?

Yes, but not with the current mhonarc code base.  I.e.  You have to
do some coding to make it happen.

> I've had a bit of a look through the code, and maybe it could be done 
> quickly by changing msgnum_filename in mhutil.pl to use 
> get_time_from_index, and then print that into the filename with DIRSEP...

Possibly, but there may be other parts of mhonarc that this can adversly
affect.  I think doing things so custom filenaming can be done, but if
you introduce a directory portion, things can break, like with the
resolution of various resource variables.

> I figured I'd ask first though before getting too far along that track.

If you are serious about implementing a solution, I recommend subscribing
to mhonarc-dev for any further discussions.

--ewh