Dear piler users,
I have a single idea in mind before release the final 0.1.25 version of
piler.
The gui supports groups, so you can make arbitrary permissions for
users. However
currently the piler groups support local users only. I bet that most of
you keep
users in Active Directory, ldap or other external databases, so it
would be
better to assign groups to them directly.
One possible method to do so is to redesign the group feature with the
following
tables:
1. group: define the groups, eg. id=1, name=somenameforyourgroup
2. group_email: define emails assigned to the given group
Currently we have group_user to define local userid vs. group id
associations,
eg.
MariaDB [piler]> select * from `group_user`;
+----+-----+
| id | uid |
+----+-----+
| 1 | 2 |
+----+-----+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)
Now I'd change this to replace the uid field with an email address.
Then when an
AD user logs in the gui queries all his email addresses, then we need
another query
to determine any additional email address that the user needs access.
My question is whether you can accept such a change for your existing
archives.
I also tried to improve the "Archive size:" on the health page. This
number comes
from the counter table, and it's the sum of the sizes of the received
emails (before
storing them, ie. without compression and deduplication). To make
things clearer
my test archive has the following:
Archive size: 128.2 GB (59.0 GB)
So the archive stores 128.2 GBs of emails on 59 GB disk space only.
That's why you
see a different number at the disk usage. The "59 GB" also comes from
the counter
table, it has a new column which updates the stored size. One small
issue for existing
archives: to get a rather accurate result you should set some value for
it by
estimating your current usage, eg.
update counter set stored_size = 59000000000;
But first extend the counter table:
alter table `counter` add column `stored_size` bigint unsigned default
0;
I've also updated the download page with rc2. rc1 has an unpleasant
surprise. The duplicate
detection uses a temp file. The trouble is that I forgot to add the
matching close() syscall,
so you may run out of the available open files limit, especially with
using pilerimport. The
rc2 version fixes this issue.
So the plan is to give you 2 weeks to test rc2, and if you don't report
issues, then I'll
release the final version.
If you have any questions, just let me know.
Janos
