[Dovecot] Turning off "Fixed Duplicates" feature

Jordan Tardif jordan at hq.newdream.net
Fri Nov 13 06:51:24 EET 2009


> I actually meant that you should do both. But no, 1) shouldn't cause
> problems.
>
> Or actually looking at the code, it already tries to detect duplicate
> hard links and unlinks one of them. You could change the code from:
>
> 	if (st1.st_ino == st2.st_ino &&
> 	    CMP_DEV_T(st1.st_dev, st2.st_dev)) {
> 		/* Files are the same. this means either a race condition
> 		   between stat() calls, or that the files were link()ed. */
> 		if (st1.st_nlink > 1 && st2.st_nlink == st1.st_nlink &&
> 		    st1.st_ctime == st2.st_ctime &&
> 		    st1.st_ctime < ioloop_time - DUPE_LINKS_DELETE_SECS) {
>
> to just something like:
>
> 	if (st1.st_size == st2.st_size) {
>
> and then some day when your migrations are done switch it back.

This looks like it has done the trick! Thank you very much! Looking 
forward to dovecot 2.0

-- 
Jordan Tardif
DreamHost


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