Cyrus IMAPD 2.4: Release early, release often
Alessandro Bono
alessandro.bono at gmail.com
Thu Nov 18 20:58:14 UTC 2010
On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 14:42:16 -0600, Patrick Goetz wrote:
> On 11/18/2010 02:36 PM, Alessandro Bono wrote:
>> it's not difficult if your old installation use only skiplist db, and
>> maybe also with db4.x with new cyrus imapd 2.4
>>
>>
> I think the catch is many, if not most 2.1-2.2 users (including myself
> on 2 different servers) have BDB metadata files. What I'm looking for
> is a way to convert all the BDB files to skiplist, since this is now the
> default (and BDB is a pain in the a**). Of course imapsync could be
> used for this when migrating from one server to another, but as was
> pointed out in a previous discussion on migration, many users are
> upgrading the same server, not moving from an old server to a new one.
I have not tried but cyrus imapd 2.4 should convert automagically from
old db4.x to new version or to skiplist. From 2.4 changelog
- All databases are now default skiplist, and ctl_cyrusdb will
automatically convert database type on startup.
http://www.cyrusimap.org/docs/cyrus-imapd/2.4.0/changes.php
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Cordiali saluti
Alessandro Bono
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