Platform: Intel PII
debian sarge
cyrus21-imapd 2.1.18-1
Today my imap folder user.myuser.sub was trashed. I did
cyrreconstruct user.myuser.sub
to rebuild it.
What I found then was that it had a lot more articles than before the
crash.
That particular folder had slowed down quite a bit, so during
Christmas I decided to clean it up. From my imap client Gnus I
deleted (or believed I deleted) everything I didn't want. Then I
moved the rest to the user.myuser.sub.arkiv folder.
After the cyrreconstruct those articles were back. That is: I'm not
_entirely_ sure the deleted articles were back, but I am sure that the
moved articles are back, because I can see them and grep them in both
the directory /var/spool/cyrus/mail/s/user/myuser/sub/ and the directory
/var/spool/cyrus/mail/s/user/myuser/sub/arkiv/ on the server.
>From the looks of it, these duplicates are hardlinked.
So my questions are:
Is there a way short of redoing the Christmas cleanup from an email
client to get back to the state before the massive delete/move?
Ie. what if I wrote a perl script that unlinked everything that had
more than one hardlink in /var/spool/cyrus/mail/s/user/myuser/sub/ and
then did cyrreconstruct?
Or if that's inadvisable: what happens if a client attempts to do a
move for something that's already hardlinked to both folders?
Thanx!
- Steinar
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