VOLATILEDIR not really used?

Tom Sommer

4 Oct 2018 4 Oct '18

2:39 p.m.

According to the docs, setting VOLATILEDIR will improve I/O performance when using NFS - but as far as I can see, only vsize lock-files are put here, and little else?

Is this correct, and if so are there any plans to move dotlocks etc. to this directory?

Thanks.

Tom

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Timo Sirainen

4 Oct 4 Oct

4:55 p.m.

On 4 Oct 2018, at 14.39, Tom Sommer mail@tomsommer.dk wrote:

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Hi

According to the docs, setting VOLATILEDIR will improve I/O performance when using NFS - but as far as I can see, only vsize lock-files are put here, and little else?

Right. I think also autoexpunge locking.

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Is this correct, and if so are there any plans to move dotlocks etc. to this directory?

What dotlocks? I guess mbox and Maildir have some locks that could be moved there, but a better performance optimization for those installations would be to switch to sdbox/mdbox. Other than that, I don't remember there being anything important that could be moved there.

Tom Sommer

5:13 p.m.

On 2018-10-04 15:55, Timo Sirainen wrote:

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On 4 Oct 2018, at 14.39, Tom Sommer mail@tomsommer.dk wrote:

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Is this correct, and if so are there any plans to move dotlocks etc. to this directory?

What dotlocks? I guess mbox and Maildir have some locks that could be moved there, but a better performance optimization for those installations would be to switch to sdbox/mdbox. Other than that, I don't remember there being anything important that could be moved there.

Maildir locks yes, switching format is not a procedure I feel comfortable with :)

Would it be possible to move the maildir/mbox locks to VOLATILEDIR?

-- Tom Sommer

Timo Sirainen

5 Oct 5 Oct

12:35 p.m.

On 4 Oct 2018, at 17.13, Tom Sommer mail@tomsommer.dk wrote:

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On 2018-10-04 15:55, Timo Sirainen wrote:

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On 4 Oct 2018, at 14.39, Tom Sommer mail@tomsommer.dk wrote:

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Is this correct, and if so are there any plans to move dotlocks etc. to this directory? What dotlocks? I guess mbox and Maildir have some locks that could be moved there, but a better performance optimization for those installations would be to switch to sdbox/mdbox. Other than that, I don't remember there being anything important that could be moved there.

Maildir locks yes, switching format is not a procedure I feel comfortable with :)

Would it be possible to move the maildir/mbox locks to VOLATILEDIR?

Sure it would be possible, but it's such a low priority for us that I doubt we'll be implementing it.

Tom Sommer

12:50 p.m.

On 2018-10-05 11:35, Timo Sirainen wrote:

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On 4 Oct 2018, at 17.13, Tom Sommer mail@tomsommer.dk wrote:

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On 2018-10-04 15:55, Timo Sirainen wrote:

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On 4 Oct 2018, at 14.39, Tom Sommer mail@tomsommer.dk wrote:

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Is this correct, and if so are there any plans to move dotlocks etc. to this directory? What dotlocks? I guess mbox and Maildir have some locks that could be moved there, but a better performance optimization for those installations would be to switch to sdbox/mdbox. Other than that, I don't remember there being anything important that could be moved there.

Maildir locks yes, switching format is not a procedure I feel comfortable with :)

Would it be possible to move the maildir/mbox locks to VOLATILEDIR?

Sure it would be possible, but it's such a low priority for us that I doubt we'll be implementing it.

Hrmm okay, fair enough. Seems like a small task though.

Might try and look into it myself.

Tom Sommer

4:42 p.m.

On 2018-10-05 11:50, Tom Sommer wrote:

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On 2018-10-05 11:35, Timo Sirainen wrote:

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On 4 Oct 2018, at 17.13, Tom Sommer mail@tomsommer.dk wrote:

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On 2018-10-04 15:55, Timo Sirainen wrote:

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On 4 Oct 2018, at 14.39, Tom Sommer mail@tomsommer.dk wrote:

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Is this correct, and if so are there any plans to move dotlocks etc. to this directory? What dotlocks? I guess mbox and Maildir have some locks that could be moved there, but a better performance optimization for those installations would be to switch to sdbox/mdbox. Other than that, I don't remember there being anything important that could be moved there.

Maildir locks yes, switching format is not a procedure I feel comfortable with :)

Would it be possible to move the maildir/mbox locks to VOLATILEDIR?

Sure it would be possible, but it's such a low priority for us that I doubt we'll be implementing it.

Might try and look into it myself.

Something like this? See attached.

Timo Sirainen

10:56 p.m.

On 5 Oct 2018, at 16.42, Tom Sommer mailto:mail@tomsommer.dk> wrote:

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On 2018-10-05 11:50, Tom Sommer wrote:

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On 2018-10-05 11:35, Timo Sirainen wrote:

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On 4 Oct 2018, at 17.13, Tom Sommer mailto:mail@tomsommer.dk> wrote:

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On 2018-10-04 15:55, Timo Sirainen wrote:

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Is this correct, and if so are there any plans to move dotlocks etc. to this directory? What dotlocks? I guess mbox and Maildir have some locks that could be moved there, but a better performance optimization for those installations would be to switch to sdbox/mdbox. Other than that, I don't remember there being anything important that could be moved

On 4 Oct 2018, at 14.39, Tom Sommer mailto:mail@tomsommer.dk> wrote: there. Maildir locks yes, switching format is not a procedure I feel comfortable with :) Would it be possible to move the maildir/mbox locks to VOLATILEDIR? Sure it would be possible, but it's such a low priority for us that I doubt we'll be implementing it. Might try and look into it myself.

Something like this? See attached.

Looks like it works. But could you:

Add it to github as merge request
MAILBOX_LIST_PATH_TYPE_VOLATILEDIR might be useful, but it's kind of a separate change of its own. To simplify, in Maildir code you could have box->list->set->volatile_dir != NULL ? box->list->set->volatile_dir : control_dir. That way it's falling back to control_dir like the previous code when VOLATILEDIR wasn't set.

Tom Sommer

8 Oct 8 Oct

10:16 a.m.

On 2018-10-05 21:56, Timo Sirainen wrote:

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Looks like it works. But could you:

Add it to github as merge request

Done, for the first part of the code.

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MAILBOX_LIST_PATH_TYPE_VOLATILEDIR might be useful, but it's kind of a separate change of its own. To simplify, in Maildir code you could have box->list->set->volatile_dir != NULL ? box->list->set->volatile_dir : control_dir. That way it's falling back to control_dir like the previous code when VOLATILEDIR wasn't set.

I just copied the code from above: if (mailbox_get_path_to(box, MAILBOX_LIST_PATH_TYPE_CONTROL, &control_dir) <= 0)

If I do as you suggest, I get this?:

maildir-uidlist.c:277:47: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type uidlist->path_dotlock = i_strconcat(box->list->set->volatile_dir != NULL ? box->list->set->volatile_dir : control_dir, "/"MAILDIR_UIDLIST_NAME, NULL);

That's the reason I expanded mailbox_get_path_to(), since that angle worked

Thanks for the feedback :)

-- Tom

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