Dave, What is the problem with big-dirs while migrating the users? If you can tell us the reason of the disabling big-dirs, We can try to find out a solution without disabling big-dirs. I guess it is related with the script?
Sunday, October 8, 2006, 11:29:56 PM, you wrote: > OK, fair point. So let me ask this please. > If I migrate with big-dirs DISABLED, then I recompile to enable big-dirs > AND I move some accounts into subfolders "a", "b", "c", etc while making > appropriate adjustments in vpopmail table, is that an appropriate way to > control this risk? > THANKS! > Ismail YENIGUL wrote: >> Dave, >> >> Please note that creating 7000 sub directories in a single directory will >> effect your performance negatively. >> >> >> Friday, October 6, 2006, 11:50:26 PM, you wrote: >> >> >>> Rick Macdougall wrote: >>> >>>> Dave Richardson wrote: >>>> >>>>> I'm using a script to add thousands of user accounts as part of a >>>>> migration for a single domain. It's a perl script making repeated >>>>> calls to >>>>> /home/vpopmail/bin/vadduser -e "dsfgskjghaekjrgkr" [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>>> >>>>> The scripting is working fine, I see the accounts correctly in >>>>> MySQL's vpopmail table. >>>>> >>>>> However, I'm seeing vadduser create a hierarchy of folders after >>>>> about the first 80-100 users are added. Using subfolders A-z,0-9. >>>>> >>>>> I only have about 7,000 users to manage and would rather NOT subtree >>>>> (whatever the term is) this user hierarchy. >>>>> >>>>> What logic controls when vadduser decides to subtree the folders for >>>>> a particular domain? >>>>> >>>>> Or, should I just let my script run out all the migrations, create >>>>> the user/Maildirs wherever, and then start moving them to the root of >>>>> the domain folder? That leaves some nasty work in SQL to clean up >>>>> the home folder field! >>>>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> Configure vpopmail with --disable-users-big-dir. >>>> >>>> --disable-users-big-dir Disable hashing of user directories. >>>> >>>> Regards, >>>> >>>> Rick >>>> >>>> >>> Thanks Rick and Jon! >>> >> >> >> >> -- Ismail YENIGUL Proje Yöneticisi / Project Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.endersys.com
