Re: Switching to extindex

[Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>]

Eric Wong <e@80x24.org> writes:

> 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...

Interesting...for me it recreates the 0/1/2 directories unless I edit
the config file explicitly.

Thanks,

jon