moving mailboxes to other partitons in murder setup can lead missing entries in mailboxes.db

[ellie timoney]

Hi,

Michael's patch is now on all the affected branches, and will be
included in future releases.   Thanks very much :)

> From me/us here... we think it must be typo, failure to not allow the  
> rename here. But it would be nice to read some words of the developers  
> who added this restriction.

Our git history shows that the restriction that prevents simultaneous
partition move+rename was introduced sometime between 2.2 and 2.3.  The
changes were merged en masse in 2006 by Ken Murchison, but there's no
history (at least in git, that I can find) of who developed any
individual change.

For lack of an authoritative source, my inference is that we forbid
renames during partition moves to reduce the amount of potential mess if
it fails midway through.

Given that this behaviour has been stable for at least 11 years at this
point, I think it's fine; and I think the openSUSE patch is bogus and
should be removed, as it inverts the behaviour completely from any other
Cyrus environment.

Cheers,

ellie

On Mon, Sep 18, 2017, at 08:12 PM, Stephan Lauffer wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Zitat von Michael Menge <michael.menge at zdv.uni-tuebingen.de>:
> 
> [...]
> 
> > Where did this patch came from?
> 
>  From me/us here... we think it must be typo, failure to not allow the  
> rename here. But it would be nice to read some words of the developers  
> who added this restriction.
> 
> -- 
> Liebe Gruesse, with best regards
> Stephan Lauffer
> 
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