Creating/updating partition spool

[Ross Boylan]

On Sun, 2008-05-18 at 19:10 -0700, Ross Boylan wrote:
> For the latest upgrade the terminal shows
> Setting up cyrus-common-2.2 (2.2.13-14+b1) ...
> Installing new version of config file /etc/init.d/cyrus2.2 ...
> Creating/updating cyrus user account...
> The user `cyrus' is already a member of `sasl'.
> Creating/updating cyrus control directories in /var/lib/cyrus...
> Creating/updating partition spool /var/spool/cyrus/mail...
> 
> It's been at the last step for at least 15 minutes, and probably has
> many more to go.
Over an hour.
> 
> Is this really necessary with an existing installation?  I thought I saw
> a bug about this awhile ago, and that the problem was supposed to have
> been fixed.  Certainly not fixed for me!
> 
> Ross
Another side-effect of the update is that my incremental backup
apparently is now backing up every file in the spool.  Since this takes
over 24 hours, it's a problem.

Ross