[Dovecot] Locking problems on Dovecot 1.x in Maildir

[Ronald MacDonald]

It seems as if the flock does not have any effect on the corrupting of the
transaction logs. Additionally, I would not be prepared to use dotlock as
its performance is detrimental to the server's load at busy times.

Ronald.

On 27/06/07, Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> wrote:
>
> No, ext3 would be fine. I just thought /srv might point to NFS or
> something. This is a bit weird though. There shouldn't be any bugs like
> this with local filesystems.
>
> You could try if mmap_disable=no would change anything, or
> lock_method=flock or even lock_method=dotlock.
>
> On Tue, 2007-06-19 at 18:07 +0100, Ronald MacDonald wrote:
> > Well, I am actually using ext3, how do you suspect this might affect the
> > reliability of the transaction log?
> >
> > Ronald.
> >
> > On 19/06/07, Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Mon, 2007-06-18 at 18:04 +0100, Ronald MacDonald wrote:
> > > > dovecot: 2007-06-18 12:57:59 Error: IMAP(ronald at rmacd.com):
> Corrupted
> > > > transaction log file
> > > > /srv/indexes/rmacd.com/r/ronald/.INBOX/dovecot.index.log: Seen
> counter
> > > wrong
> > >
> > > What filesystem do you use?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>


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