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[Deryck Hodge <deryck.hodge@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 1:13 AM, William Grant
<william.grant@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 25/01/12 09:27, Deryck Hodge wrote:
>> Hi, Abel.
>>
>> We've begun to run out of disk space on devpad due to all the oops
>> piling up.  William has kindly offerred to try to get a fix for this
>> in his morning today, in order to get us some disk space back.  If he
>> can't fix it, he'll do some manual oops deleting, but obviously,
>> fixing it is better than blindly deleting old oops.
>>
>> I just wanted to give you (and the list) a heads up, so others know
>> what's going on with the issue and so you know to check on the state
>> of the fix before diving back in during your morning tomorrow.
>
> As I've described in the bug, it's a case-sensitivity issue. Launchpad
> returns referenced OOPS IDs in ALLCAPS, while oops-datedir-repo treats
> them case-sensitively. I have a branch in ec2 to fix Launchpad.
>
> But since the fix cannot wait for a deployment in a day or two, I've
> cowboyed oops-datedir-repo on carob to treat OOPS IDs insensitively.
> It's currently pruning over the production OOPSes, having so far removed
> 16GB of about 87GB. I've kept a hardlinked snapshot of the original tree
> in lpqateam@carob:~/oops-amqp-backup just in case, so the space won't be
> reclaimed until I've verified that the pruning was correct.
>
>

Thanks for taking care of this, William!

Cheers,
deryck

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