On 4.12.2012, at 18.59, Dave Abrahams wrote: > on Tue Dec 04 2012, Timo Sirainen <tss-AT-iki.fi> wrote: > >> On 4.12.2012, at 18.46, Dave Abrahams wrote: >> >>> Subject says all. Timo, would you write something up where the world >>> will find it? Also, it would be great if doveadm fts was covered in the >>> doveadm manpage. >> >> It runs the Lucene's optimize function with fts-lucene backend. Does >> nothing with others. Basically I think it just gathers multiple Lucene >> index files together and packs them into a single file, dropping all >> deleted data (Lucene documentation has more details I think). Similar >> to what "doveadm purge" does to mdbox files. fts-lucene runs the >> optimize also internally automatically once in a while, so I'm not >> sure if that doveadm command should necessarily even exist. > > I think the answer lies in your perception of benefits vs maintainance > (including documentation) costs... ;-)
Based on the awesome explanation I just gave, I wouldn't mind if someone converts something based on it to a man page patch!
