From: David Carter (no email)
Date: Tue Aug 14 2007 - 03:04:12 EDT
On Mon, 30 Jul 2007, Bron Gondwana wrote:
> The fast rename patch doesn't handle split-meta at all by my reading,
> which is a reason it can't work as-is in our configuration.
Here's an updated version which does split-meta (including renames to and
from partitions which have split-meta). Also handles multiple quota roots
correctly, which I had made a complete hash of first time around:
http://www-uxsup.csx.cam.ac.uk/~dpc22/cyrus/patches/2.3.8/fast_rename.patch
> Much better is if it's logged somewhere that the system reads on startup
> and finishes the action - that's heaps more robust. Harder to write
> initially, but a whole lot better for safety.
I'm going to leave this part as an exercise for the reader as it has never
been an issue on our systems. I understand that someone with an order or
two of magnitude more users might have a different view of the situation.
> cyr_dbtool (in 2.3.8) can do it:
cyr_dbtool doesn't appear to be documented.
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