Re: Switching to extindex

[Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>]

Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> wrote:
> Eric Wong <e@80x24.org> writes:
> 
> > Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> wrote:
> >> I"ve run public-inbox-extindex --all and waited a few days; once I
> >> figured out that I also need to have it running with --watch, things
> >> *seem* to be working well.
> >> 
> >> My understanding is that I can now get rid of the per-inbox indexing and
> >> get a bunch of disk space back, and I would like to do that.  This,
> >> though, is the step that I've not been able to figure out.  Which files
> >> can I remove, and how do I tell public-inbox to not recreate them?
> >
> > Yes, you can remove the Xapian shard directories (0, 1, 2, ...)
> > under xap15 and -watch will be able to detect indexlevel=basic
> > on the next SIGHUP or restart.
> 
> For reasons lost to history, I'm using public-inbox-mda instead; it
> seems it does not do that detection?  No worries, I can tweak the config
> file easily enough.

-mda does the detection, too, just every time.  I haven't used
it much with -extindex but I think it there's tests for it so it works...