[Dovecot] 1.0rc8: another problem? Possibly 64-bit index?

[John Peacock]

Timo Sirainen wrote:
> Yep, this is a problem with dovecot.index.cache file created with 32bit
> machine not working in 64bit machine. It should automatically detect
> this and delete it, but for some reason it doesn't seem to work always.
> You could do the exact same thing manually anyway by deleting them.

Yes, but the OP was reporting trying to run *both* a 32-bit and a 64-bit 
server sharing the same NFS-mounted filesystem.  In other words, either 
you (Timo) need to change the indexes to be platform independent (i.e. 
no 64-bit-isms) or you need to put a BIG WARNING to not share the 
message indexes between different width platforms.  The performance hit 
of repeated nuking of the index files is going to be huge.

Obviously, the OP could also configure the index files to be located on 
a local filesystem (i.e. not shared in the message store), which should 
also be higher performance under all circumstances with networked 
message stores...

John

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