upgrade from cyrus imapd 2.3.11 to 2.4.9

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Fri, 24 Jun 2011, Patrick Boutilier wrote:
> On 06/24/2011 04:22 PM, Bron Gondwana wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 03:32:50PM -0300, Patrick Boutilier wrote:
> >> I was planning to an upgrade from 2.3.16 to 2.4.9 by just shutting
> >> down Cyrus, installing new binaries, and then starting Cyrus again.
> >> This worked fine in limited testing (one account).
> >
> > The only issue is that every first mailbox access causes an in-place
> > upgrade which requires a full scan of every email, so it can hurt
> > pretty bad for IO.
> 
> 
> This is why I decided to wait until the end of the school year (next 
> week) to do the upgrade. :-)

And you can force the "IO hit" to happen at a convenient time by forcing
a reconstruct on the mailboxes you want to upgrade immediately (but be
careful with which flags you pass to configure).

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  Henrique Holschuh