[Box Backup-dev] Proposal (patch): bbstored HousekeepingStyle mod

Martin Ebourne boxbackup-dev at fluffy.co.uk
Fri Jan 12 22:05:47 GMT 2007


On Fri, 2007-01-12 at 09:40 -0800, G. wrote:
> 1.) A setting as critical as server file maintenance policy should be
> an explicit setting (such as a new bbstored.conf housekeeping mode, or
> perhaps a new bbstoredaccounts setlimit switch), as opposed to a
> special value of zero for the soft-limit, so that there is no
> ambiguity whatsoever that this is a supported server maintenance
> scenario, and that the soft limit is no longer a relevant quantity.

More lines of code == more bugs.

We need more documentation, not more bugs. I think this should be a
documented (and fully supported) special case. A patch to the docbook
documentation (in svn trunk) would be great, and/or note it in the
instructions on the wiki.

> Greetings (and thanks for the suggestion, Martin!),

Thanks for reporting back.

Martin.




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