From: Eric Wong <e@yhbt.net>
To: meta@public-inbox.org
Subject: [PATCH 8/9] doc: -convert: document switches
Date: Sun, 2 Feb 2020 06:52:21 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200202065222.14966-9-e@yhbt.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200202065222.14966-1-e@yhbt.net>
These switches have always been there, but were not
documented until now.
---
Documentation/public-inbox-convert.pod | 41 ++++++++++++++++++++++++--
1 file changed, 39 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/public-inbox-convert.pod b/Documentation/public-inbox-convert.pod
index 4c790dee..417e5e4e 100644
--- a/Documentation/public-inbox-convert.pod
+++ b/Documentation/public-inbox-convert.pod
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ public-inbox-convert - convert v1 inboxes to v2
=head1 SYNOPSIS
- public-inbox-convert OLD_DIR NEW_DIR
+ public-inbox-convert [OPTIONS] OLD_DIR NEW_DIR
=head1 DESCRIPTION
@@ -14,6 +14,27 @@ and users are expected to update the "inboxdir" path in
L<public-inbox-config(5)> to point to the path of NEW_DIR
once they are satisfied with the conversion.
+=head1 OPTIONS
+
+=over
+
+=item --no-index
+
+Disables Xapian and overview DB indexing on the new repository.
+By default, public-inbox-convert creates a new index in the v2
+repository and indexes all existing messages, a lengthy
+operation for large inboxes.
+
+=item -j JOBS, --jobs=JOBS
+
+Control the number of indexing jobs and Xapian shards of the v2
+inbox. By default, this is the detected CPU count but capped
+at 4 due to various bottlenecks. The number of Xapian shards
+will be 1 less than the JOBS value, since there is a single
+process which distributes work to the Xapian shards.
+
+=back
+
=head1 ENVIRONMENT
=over 8
@@ -27,6 +48,21 @@ See L<public-inbox-config(5)>
=head1 UPGRADING
+Editing "~/.public-inbox/config" (or whatever C<PI_CONFIG> is
+set to) will be required to start using the new directory.
+
+=head1 BUGS
+
+Writes from L<public-inbox-mda(1)> or L<git-fetch(1)> to the v1
+inbox which occur after the start of the conversion will not
+be picked up in the v2 inbox.
+
+Users of L<public-inbox-watch(1)> do not have to worry about
+this. They only need to update the config file to point to the
+v2 inbox, send C<SIGHUP> public-inbox-watch process to reload
+the config file, and then C<SIGUSR1> to rescan existing
+Maildirs.
+
=head1 CONTACT
Feedback welcome via plain-text mail to L<mailto:meta@public-inbox.org>
@@ -42,4 +78,5 @@ License: AGPL-3.0+ L<https://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.txt>
=head1 SEE ALSO
-L<public-inbox-init(1)>, L<public-inbox-index(1)>
+L<public-inbox-init(1)>, L<public-inbox-index(1)>, L<public-inbox-config(5)>,
+L<public-inbox-v1-format(5)>, L<public-inbox-v2-format(5)>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-02-02 6:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-02-02 6:52 [PATCH 0/9] convert: more fixes and tests Eric Wong
2020-02-02 6:52 ` [PATCH 1/9] t/multi-mid.t: extra test for -convert highwater mark Eric Wong
2020-02-02 6:52 ` [PATCH 2/9] v2writable: nproc_shards: subtract 1 from given value Eric Wong
2020-02-02 6:52 ` [PATCH 3/9] v2writable: do not clobber {shards} or {parallel} if unset Eric Wong
2020-02-02 6:52 ` [PATCH 4/9] convert: remove unused variables capturing :from Eric Wong
2020-02-02 6:52 ` [PATCH 5/9] searchidxshard: rely on autoflush instead of ->flush Eric Wong
2020-02-02 6:52 ` [PATCH 6/9] convert: shift @ARGV explicitly Eric Wong
2020-02-02 6:52 ` [PATCH 7/9] convert: fix --no-index switch Eric Wong
2020-02-02 6:52 ` Eric Wong [this message]
2020-02-02 6:52 ` [PATCH 9/9] v2writable: more ways to detect online CPU count Eric Wong
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