Hi Bron, On Friday, 7. August 2015 07:48:06 Bron Gondwana wrote: > On Sat, Jul 25, 2015, at 01:49, Thomas Jarosch wrote: > > Hi, > > > > which quota backend is the recommended backend nowadays? > > > > Obvious candidates are "quotalegacy" and "skiplist". > > > > quotalegacy has per-user files while "skiplist" > > would use one central file for all users, > > which means more lock contention. > > > > The man page entry for "quota_db" doesn't give > > any explanation which backend to prefer. > > > > Which backend is used at Fastmail? :) > > Quotalegacy. And for precisely the reason you might imagine - lower lock > contention :)
thanks, it's good to know it's used in a large scale installation. There are some fixes in the 2.5 code base that need porting to 2.4, I'll see what I can do about that in September. Mostly minor stuff about closing file descriptors (=unlocking) on error. So those fixes could at least land on the 2.4 branch, independent if there's going to be another release or not. Thomas
