singleinstancestore obsolete?

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Wed, 19 Oct 2011, Simon Matter wrote:
> I think for the singleinstancestore, you can redo it after migration with
> tools like hardlink or http://www.freedup.org/. IIRC I did this once and

Indeed you can.  AFAIK, once Cyrus IMAP commits a message to disk, its
backing file is not changed, just unlinked (maybe due to an atomic
rename).  Someone please correct me if I'm wrong...

rsync -H will also work, but it can be painful. YMMV.

I'd test the hardlink tool on a copy of the spool first, especially if you
already have a lot of hardlinked files in it, and some are two sets of
hardlinked files with the same content (it would actually be joining several
clusters of hardlinks into single a larger cluster...).

-- 
  "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
  Henrique Holschuh