[Dovecot] dsync replication questions

Simon Fraser srf at sanger.ac.uk
Mon Apr 7 09:22:14 UTC 2014


On Fri, 2014-04-04 at 15:41 +0300, Teemu Huovila wrote:
> Hi
> 
> On 04/04/2014 03:38 PM, Simon Fraser wrote:
> > It does help, thank you.  Do you also know what the '-f' option does?
> According to the dsync-man page it:
> 
> Makes dsync run in "full sync" mode rather than "fast sync" mode. In fast sync mode dsync might skip syncing a mailbox, if both
> locations had modified it equally many times (i.e. highest-modseqs were equal), but with different changes.

Thank you.  Is it still only the changes that are synced each way, or
the entire mailbox? I'm trying to gauge the performance hit for enabling
this on larger mailboxes. (I could, of course, run some tests, but
someone may already have done that)

Simon.




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