[Dovecot] Re: Maildir unreliability
Matthias Andree
matthias.andree at gmx.de
Wed Oct 27 10:59:19 EEST 2004
On Wed, 27 Oct 2004, Gregory Bond wrote:
> Geo Carncross wrote:
>
> >P1: opendir(dir1)
> >P1: readdir()
> >P2: rename(dir1/f, dir1/f:2)
> >P1: readdir() <- never sees dir1/f _OR_ dir1/f:2
...
>
> Fixing this in general is going to need serious kernel hacking is likely
> to be very hard, and have ugly performance or space tradeoffs.
>
> Hmmm.... dunno if this is acceptable for Maildir, but can you pad the
> filenames somehow so that the renames never lengthen the filename?
This is not how Maildir works unfortunately.
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Matthias Andree
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