Looking at the migration script, it's essentially find . -name
cyrus.* -exec mv {} /meta/part/{} \;. That's quite slow, because it
has to stat() all the messages to find the files which are metadata.
I've written an alternative for the migration we're planning for
later this week, which uses ctl_mboxlist -d to find all the mailboxes
and then looks explicitly for the named files, which avoids stat()ing
the messages. It's a bit rough at the moment: for example, it
assumes the old, single-initial-letter hashing scheme, but reducing
the amount of time the mail system has to be down for an upgrade is
always worthwhile!
ian
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