266661 - Remove empty folders from archive.mozilla.org

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(mozilla.org Graveyard :: Server Operations, task)

Description

[Frank Wein [:mcsmurf]]

On archive.mozilla.org it seems there are many empty folders. This is confusing
for someone, who wants to find a regression and only opens empty folders ;).
Examples:
http://archive.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/nightly/2004-07-27-09-trunk/
http://archive.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/nightly/2004-08-15-07-trunk/
http://archive.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/nightly/2004-08-15-08-trunk/

I would suggest
1.) to delete those empty directories (get a list of those with find . -type d
-empty -print and pass to rmdir).
2.) find out why these empty directories are created and eliminate the cause of
that.

Comment 1

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

archive.mozilla.org does not have an infinite amount of disk space (although
that's about to change this afternoon - it's getting a 1 TB disk array installed
today).  Because daily builds are endlessly accumulating, and we've been
fighting battles for disk space on that machine, we have a cron job that
ocassionally goes through and deletes old builds (with a specific pattern to try
to keep various ages available, what we keep just gets further apart the further
you go back).

The reason for the empty directories is quite likely that script deleted the
builds themselves, and didn't delete the directory containing them.

Comment 2

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

Myk used to be the default assignee for this component.  Reassigning all remaining open bugs owned by him that he doesn't appear actively involved in to the default assignee/qa for later reassignment.

Comment 3

[Alex Polvi]

OK, that wacked 1265 directories. The most recent one was: ./pub/thunderbird/nightly/2005-08-31-08-aviary1.0

I have a feeling this was caused by the same thing that is causing bug 318510... so hopefully this will not happen again once that is resolved.

Comment 4

[Alex Polvi]

Reassigning for bookkeeping purposes.