Today's pop quiz: replication

Bron Gondwana brong at fastmail.fm
Mon Aug 3 19:08:45 EDT 2015


On Fri, Jul 24, 2015, at 18:29, Michael Menge wrote:
> One possible problem I am seeing is that after a split brain, or
> switch of primary and replica for some users there might be some
> problems for renamed folders, subsciptions and folder annotations.
> Cyrus is able to handle changes on both sides in a mailbox  (new mail,
> deleded mail, changed mail) because of modseq, but this is missing for
> mailbox metadata.

I want to add this to all mailbox metadata (including sieve files,
quotaroot limits, etc), but it's a bunch of work.  We're part way there
with the mailboxes.db tombstones to help with rename detection, but the
support hasn't been added to the replication protocol yet.

Bron.

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