[Dovecot] Unexpected behaviour when deleteing a big mailbox

[T. Horsnell]

On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 07:27:40PM +0200, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-03-22 at 14:22 +0100, Steffen Kaiser wrote:
> > dovecot: Mar 22 13:35:39 Error: IMAP(dvtest) [18381]: Maildir 
> > /mnt/mailcache/dvtest/.box1 sync: UID inserted in the middle of mailbox 
> > (16251 > 6588, file = 1174389173.P6520Q1M362610.ux-2s11-9:2,Fdc)
> 
> Are you using ext3? I just found a bug in it that could cause this with
> large maildirs.

Timo, you (and others) may well consider this off-topic, but would you
mind telling us more about this ext3 bug? I have some very large ext3
filesystems (not maildirs) and am concerned.

Cheers,
Terry.

> 
> > dovecot: Mar 22 14:05:09 Error: IMAP(dvtest) [18444]: file client.c: line 
> > 404 (_client_input): assertion failed: (!client->handling_input)
> 
> This crash has been fixed in CVS for a while now.
> 



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