diff --git a/rust/lance-core/src/utils.rs b/rust/lance-core/src/utils.rs
index acf215caeb..a67cfad693 100644
--- a/rust/lance-core/src/utils.rs
+++ b/rust/lance-core/src/utils.rs
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ pub mod deletion;
 pub mod futures;
 pub mod hash;
 pub mod mask;
+pub mod parse;
 pub mod path;
 pub mod testing;
 pub mod tokio;
diff --git a/rust/lance-io/src/object_store.rs b/rust/lance-io/src/object_store.rs
index 061ee5b03c..a9e8d60eca 100644
--- a/rust/lance-io/src/object_store.rs
+++ b/rust/lance-io/src/object_store.rs
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ use bytes::Bytes;
 use chrono::{DateTime, Utc};
 use deepsize::DeepSizeOf;
 use futures::{future, stream::BoxStream, StreamExt, TryStreamExt};
+use lance_core::utils::parse::str_is_truthy;
 use lance_core::utils::tokio::get_num_compute_intensive_cpus;
 use object_store::aws::{
     AmazonS3ConfigKey, AwsCredential as ObjectStoreAwsCredential, AwsCredentialProvider,
@@ -1039,14 +1040,6 @@ fn infer_block_size(scheme: &str) -> usize {
     }
 }
 
-fn str_is_truthy(val: &str) -> bool {
-    val.eq_ignore_ascii_case("1")
-        | val.eq_ignore_ascii_case("true")
-        | val.eq_ignore_ascii_case("on")
-        | val.eq_ignore_ascii_case("yes")
-        | val.eq_ignore_ascii_case("y")
-}
-
 /// Attempt to create a Url from given table location.
 ///
 /// The location could be:
diff --git a/rust/lance/src/index.rs b/rust/lance/src/index.rs
index 0b2920dd2d..4d15cbb995 100644
--- a/rust/lance/src/index.rs
+++ b/rust/lance/src/index.rs
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ use arrow_schema::DataType;
 use async_trait::async_trait;
 use futures::{stream, StreamExt, TryStreamExt};
 use itertools::Itertools;
+use lance_core::utils::parse::str_is_truthy;
 use lance_file::reader::FileReader;
 use lance_file::v2;
 use lance_file::v2::reader::FileReaderOptions;
@@ -70,15 +71,8 @@ use self::vector::{build_vector_index, VectorIndexParams, LANCE_VECTOR_INDEX};
 
 // Whether to auto-migrate a dataset when we encounter corruption.
 fn auto_migrate_corruption() -> bool {
-    static MAX_CONN_RESET_RETRIES: OnceLock<bool> = OnceLock::new();
-    fn str_is_truthy(val: &str) -> bool {
-        val.eq_ignore_ascii_case("1")
-            | val.eq_ignore_ascii_case("true")
-            | val.eq_ignore_ascii_case("on")
-            | val.eq_ignore_ascii_case("yes")
-            | val.eq_ignore_ascii_case("y")
-    }
-    *MAX_CONN_RESET_RETRIES.get_or_init(|| {
+    static LANCE_AUTO_MIGRATION: OnceLock<bool> = OnceLock::new();
+    *LANCE_AUTO_MIGRATION.get_or_init(|| {
         std::env::var("LANCE_AUTO_MIGRATION")
             .ok()
             .map(|s| str_is_truthy(&s))