choosing a file system

Bron Gondwana brong at fastmail.fm
Thu Jan 1 00:56:04 EST 2009


On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 07:47:31AM -0500, Nik Conwell wrote:
> 
> On Dec 30, 2008, at 4:43 PM, Shawn Nock wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
> > a scripted rename of mailboxes to balance partition utilization when  
> > we
> > add another partition.
> 
> Just curious - how do stop people from accessing their mailboxes  
> during the time they are being renamed and moved to another partition?

All access goes via an nginx proxy - we use the proc directory contents
to detect currently active connections and termintate them after
blocking all new logins in the authentication daemon.

Once they're fully moved, logins are enabled again.

Bron.


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