On 28.6.2012, at 20.21, Timo Sirainen wrote:
On 28.6.2012, at 20.14, Timo Sirainen wrote:
"An upshot of the way alternate storage works is that any given storage file (mailboxes/<folder>/dbox-Mails/u.* (sdbox) or storage/m.* (mdbox)) can only appear *either* in the primary storage area *or* the alternate storage area but not both — if the corresponding file appears in both areas then there is an inconsistency."
Whoever wrote that wasn't exactly correct (or clear). There's no problem having the same file in both primary and alt storage. Only if the files are different there's a problem, but that shouldn't happen..
Hmm. Although looking at the mdbox index rebuilding code:
/* duplicate file. either readdir() returned it twice (unlikely) or it exists in both alt and primary storage. to make sure we don't lose any mails from either of the files, give this file a new ID and rename it. */It probably shouldn't be doing that.
Hmm. I already implemented this by having it ignore the problem if the files have the same sizes, but then started wondering if there's really any point in doing that. m.* files can be appended to later, and altmoving always creates files with new numbers, and even if it does renaming there's duplicate suppression, so .. I guess there wasn't any point in doing that after all.