From: Brian Sniffen Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2014 03:56:41 +0000 (+2000) Subject: Re: Synchronization success stories? X-Git-Url: http://git.tremily.us/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=2aee7486a8ed222921f7ef75d4809668e07b5909;p=notmuch-archives.git Re: Synchronization success stories? --- diff --git a/11/cfb1b4a3a1d788c84e3ba07b403506ae4c01ca b/11/cfb1b4a3a1d788c84e3ba07b403506ae4c01ca new file mode 100644 index 000000000..7ec3533f2 --- /dev/null +++ b/11/cfb1b4a3a1d788c84e3ba07b403506ae4c01ca @@ -0,0 +1,108 @@ +Return-Path: +X-Original-To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org +Delivered-To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org +Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) + by olra.theworths.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16D58431FBD + for ; Sun, 13 Apr 2014 20:56:53 -0700 (PDT) +X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at olra.theworths.org +X-Spam-Flag: NO +X-Spam-Score: 0 +X-Spam-Level: +X-Spam-Status: No, score=0 tagged_above=-999 required=5 + tests=[RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE=-0.0001] autolearn=disabled +Received: from olra.theworths.org ([127.0.0.1]) + by localhost (olra.theworths.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) + with ESMTP id 6nDPYIjkp237 for ; + Sun, 13 Apr 2014 20:56:45 -0700 (PDT) +Received: from prod-mail-xrelay07.akamai.com (prod-mail-xrelay07.akamai.com + [72.246.2.115]) + by olra.theworths.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21C1A431FBC + for ; Sun, 13 Apr 2014 20:56:45 -0700 (PDT) +Received: from prod-mail-xrelay07.akamai.com (localhost.localdomain + [127.0.0.1]) by postfix.imss70 (Postfix) with ESMTP id 960C9474BF; + Mon, 14 Apr 2014 03:56:42 +0000 (GMT) +Received: from prod-mail-relay06.akamai.com (prod-mail-relay06.akamai.com + [172.17.120.126]) + by prod-mail-xrelay07.akamai.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 865A5474BA; + Mon, 14 Apr 2014 03:56:42 +0000 (GMT) +Received: from usma1ex-cashub.kendall.corp.akamai.com + (usma1ex-cashub4.kendall.corp.akamai.com [172.27.105.20]) + by prod-mail-relay06.akamai.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F97E202F; + Mon, 14 Apr 2014 03:56:42 +0000 (GMT) +Received: from Tereva.local (172.19.44.105) by + USMA1EX-CASHUB4.kendall.corp.akamai.com (172.27.105.20) with Microsoft + SMTP Server (TLS) id 8.3.342.0; Sun, 13 Apr 2014 23:56:41 -0400 +From: Brian Sniffen +To: David Mazieres expires 2014-07-10 PDT + , + David Bremner , "notmuch@notmuchmail.org" + +Subject: Re: Synchronization success stories? +In-Reply-To: <8738hj3fty.fsf@ta.scs.stanford.edu> +References: + <87d2go5cyr.fsf@zancas.localnet> + <8738hj3fty.fsf@ta.scs.stanford.edu> +User-Agent: Notmuch/0.17~rc2+11~g8a10ca6 (http://notmuchmail.org) Emacs/24.3.1 + (x86_64-apple-darwin12.4.0) +Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2014 23:56:41 -0400 +Message-ID: +MIME-Version: 1.0 +Content-Type: text/plain +X-Mailman-Approved-At: Tue, 15 Apr 2014 12:12:48 -0700 +X-BeenThere: notmuch@notmuchmail.org +X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 +Precedence: list +List-Id: "Use and development of the notmuch mail system." + +List-Unsubscribe: , + +List-Archive: +List-Post: +List-Help: +List-Subscribe: , + +X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2014 03:56:53 -0000 + +David Mazieres writes: + +> David Bremner writes: +> +>> Brian Sniffen writes: +>> +>>> I'm thrilled by using notmuch to manage my mail. Low-latency search is +>>> very important to me. But I use computers in a couple of +>>> places---several of which are laptops. Has anyone stories to share of +>>> successful multi-computer notmuch sync, for a corpus of a +>>> quarter-million messages or so? +>> +>> I use syncmaildir to sync the actual messages, and a copy of the output +>> of "notmuch dump" in git to sync the metadata. +>> +>> It works OK. A bit slow; depends how often you need to fetch new mail. +> +> If you want to see my solution, it is here: +> +> http://www.scs.stanford.edu/~dm/muchsync-0.tar.gz + +Thanks! Much sync. "Wow." + +It sounds like you're paying very careful attention to correctness and +performance, so I'm very glad to be able to start from that basis. + +-Brian + +> I'm a little embarrassed by this code, as I just started to test it a +> week ago then instantly became completely dependent on it. I will +> probably change the name (from muchsync to syncmuch) and the database +> format before releasing. But if you feel like beta-testing and giving +> me feedback, have a look. +> +> Beware that if you have been using notmuch dump, you may become +> instantly hooked on my solution... +> +> David + +-- +Brian Sniffen +Information Security +Akamai Technologies