> Seen data is only stored in .seen files for shared or other user
> mailboxes. The seen data for the mailbox owner is stored in the
> cyrus.index. This has two benefits:
>
> 1) lower IO for the most common case. We need to update the
> cyrus.index file anyway to record the new MODSEQ.
> 2) owner seen becomes shared seen if you switch to shared seen
> mode on the mailbox, so that you don't wind up with one huge
> file full of shared seen data if you have a lot of shared
> mailboxes.
>
> Seen files were actually a lot of extra IO on 2.3, small files
> with multiple fsyncs!
>
> Bron.
Hello,
I am beginning to see this. Is there a mecanism to read from these .seen files
to recover this data during a migration? Because from what I am seeing, if I
move a .seen file from the old server, the new server never reads from it and
all my seen data is lost.
Thanks in advance,
Ron.
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