[Dovecot] Corrupted index cache file dovecot.index.cache: invalid record size

[bofh list]

On 11/2/06, Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 2006-10-18 at 17:53 -0400, bofh list wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Our dovecot setup consists of two hosts running dovecot-1.0.beta9 with
> > Maildir/indices stored on NFS(noac,actimeo=0 used).
> >
> > I am seeing these messages at times - but no real problems on the
> > client side.  Is this something to worry about?
> >
> > dovecot: Oct 17 10:33:31 Error: IMAP(user): Corrupted index cache file
> > mailstore/user/Maildir/.mail.incoming/dovecot.index.cache: invalid
> > record size
>
> 1.0.beta9 is old. I've done several fixes to cache file handling since.
>
> Anyway the cache corruption errors aren't too bad, since they're fixed
> automatically and they won't show up to users at all.



FWIW, we are still seeing these index corruption errors in dovecot-1.0rc12.

dovecot: Nov 06 17:19:37 Error: IMAP(1): Corrupted index cache file
mailstore/1/Maildir/dovecot.index.cache: invalid record size
dovecot: Nov 06 17:22:29 Error: IMAP(1): Corrupted index cache file
mailstore/1/Maildir/dovecot.index.cache: invalid record size
dovecot: Nov 06 18:54:47 Error: IMAP(2): Corrupted index cache file
mailstore/2/Maildir/dovecot.index.cache: invalid record size
dovecot: Nov 06 23:14:48 Error: IMAP(2): Corrupted index cache file
mailstore/2/Maildir/dovecot.index.cache: invalid record size
dovecot: Nov 07 09:20:29 Error: IMAP(3): Corrupted index cache file
mailstore/3/Maildir/dovecot.index.cache: invalid record size
dovecot: Nov 07 10:30:06 Error: IMAP(4): Corrupted index cache file
mailstore/4/Maildir/dovecot.index.cache: invalid record size
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