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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/lei-store-format.pod | 14 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/lei-store-format.pod b/Documentation/lei-store-format.pod index 71aa72cb..625c60f4 100644 --- a/Documentation/lei-store-format.pod +++ b/Documentation/lei-store-format.pod @@ -30,7 +30,6 @@ prevent them from being accidentally treated as a v2 inbox. $SHARD - Integer starting with 0 based on parallelism ~/.local/share/lei/store - - ipc.lock # lock file for internal lei IPC - local/$EPOCH.git # normal bare git repositories - mail_sync.sqlite3 # sync state IMAP, Maildir, NNTP @@ -66,11 +65,18 @@ stored in Xapian indices, volatile metadata is associated with the Xapian document, thus it is shared across different blobs of the "same" message. +=head2 mail_sync.sqlite3 + +This SQLite database maintained for bidirectional mapping of +git blobs to IMAP UIDs, Maildir file names, and NNTP article numbers. + +It is also used for retrieving messages from Maildirs indexed by +L<lei-index(1)>. + =head1 IPC -When L<lei(1)> is run in daemon mode, L<flock(2)> is used on -C<ipc.lock> is used to serialize writes to C<lei/store> across -multiple internal lei workers while minimizing commits. +L<lei-daemon(8)> communicates with the C<lei/store> process using +L<unix(7)> C<SOCK_SEQPACKET> sockets. =head1 CAVEATS |