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Bron, et al.,<br>
We're about to set up a whole new bunch of partitions in support of
Xapian indexing, for a 2.5.10-to-3.0.4 upgrade, and then will be
introducing archive functionality, too. How do archive partitions
and Xapian partitions interact?<br>
<br>
For example, the server currently has the following in imapd.conf:<br>
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<pre>defaultpartition: default
partition-default: /var/mailstores/default
metapartition-default: /var/imapmeta/default
partition-1: /var/mailstores/1
partition-2: /var/mailstores/2
partition-3: /var/mailstores/3
partition-4: /var/mailstores/4
...
partition-29: /var/mailstores/29
partition-30: /var/mailstores/30
partition-100: /var/mailstores/100
partition-temp: /var/mailstores/temp
...
# non-default metapartitions
metapartition-1: /var/imapmeta/1
metapartition-2: /var/imapmeta/2
metapartition-3: /var/imapmeta/3
metapartition-4: /var/imapmeta/4
...
metapartition-29: /var/imapmeta/29
metapartition-30: /var/imapmeta/30
metapartition-100: /var/imapmeta/100
metapartition-temp: /var/imapmeta/temp
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Going by the documentation, which I wrote with help from you good
folk at Fastmail, the
Archive partition scheme might look something like this:<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.cyrusimap.org/imap/reference/admin/locations/archive-partitions.html">https://www.cyrusimap.org/imap/reference/admin/locations/archive-partitions.html</a><br>
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<pre>archivepartition-default: /var/mailarchives/default
archivepartition-1: /var/mailarchives/1
archivepartition-2: /var/mailarchives/2
archivepartition-3: /var/mailarchives/3
archiveartition-4: /var/mailarchives/4
...
archivepartition-29: /var/mailarchives/29
archivepartition-30: /var/mailarchives/30
archivepartition-100: /var/mailarchives/100
archivepartition-temp: /var/mailarchives/temp
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</blockquote>
And the Xapian partition structure to mate with this would look
something like this (again, from the docs):<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.cyrusimap.org/imap/developer/install-xapian.html">https://www.cyrusimap.org/imap/developer/install-xapian.html</a><br>
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<pre>defaultpartition: default
partition-default: /var/mailstores/default
search_engine: <span class="highlighted">xapian</span>
search_index_headers: no
search_batchsize: 8192
defaultsearchtier: t1
1searchtier: t1
2searchtier: t1
3searchtier: t1
4searchtier: t1
...
29searchtier: t1
30searchtier: t1
100searchtier: t1
tempsearchtier: t1
...
t1searchpartition-default: /var/search/default
t1searchpartition-1: /var/search/1
t1searchpartition-2: /var/search/2
t1searchpartition-3: /var/search/3
t1searchpartition-4: /var/search/4
...
t1searchpartition-29: /var/search/29
t1searchpartition-30: /var/search/30
t1searchpartition-100: /var/search/100
t1searchpartition-temp: /var/search/temp</pre>
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First question, since there's no examples to work from; Is this
Xapian layout correct? <br>
<br>
Do I need to define & create Xapian partitions for the metadata
partitions, as is indirectly implied in Bron's original email on
this topic:<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://lists.tartarus.org/pipermail/xapian-discuss/2014-October/009112.html">https://lists.tartarus.org/pipermail/xapian-discuss/2014-October/009112.html</a><br>
<br>
Also, how do these Xapian and Archive, interact? Do I need to add a
separate Xapian partition for each Archive partition, or will the
Archive partition be treated like a child of the non-Archive
partition? (again, implied but not directly addressed in that
email).<br>
<br>
Any guidance gladly accepted, and whatever I learn will be
repackaged into more complete documentation on same.<br>
<br>
Cheers,<br>
-nic<br>
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Nic Bernstein <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:nic@onlight.com">nic@onlight.com</a>
Onlight, Inc. <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.onlight.com">www.onlight.com</a>
6525 W Bluemound Road, Suite 24 v. 414.272.4477
Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53213-4073
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