I'll let you work with Ellie on that :) I've made her boss of the legacy for now!
On Sat, Aug 8, 2015, at 00:37, Thomas Jarosch wrote: > 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 > -- Bron Gondwana br...@fastmail.fm
