[Dovecot] GlusterFS

Jeroen Koekkoek j.koekkoek at perrit.nl
Tue Aug 12 09:43:18 EEST 2008


I was afraid somebody was going to say that. Thanks for your reply, I'll
try that sometime later this week. I'll report back how it all went.

Kind regards,
Jeroen Koekkoek

-----Original Message-----
From: dovecot-bounces+j.koekkoek=perrit.nl at dovecot.org
[mailto:dovecot-bounces+j.koekkoek=perrit.nl at dovecot.org] On Behalf Of
Aria Stewart
Sent: Monday, August 11, 2008 6:32 PM
To: Dovecot Mailing List
Subject: Re: [Dovecot] GlusterFS


On Aug 11, 2008, at 10:22 AM, Timo Sirainen wrote:

> On Aug 7, 2008, at 3:57 AM, Jeroen Koekkoek wrote:
>
>> I receive the following error message.
>>
>> Aug  7 09:38:51 mta2 dovecot: POP3(somebody at domain.tld):
>> nfs_flush_fcntl:
>> fcntl(/var/vmail/domain.tld/somebody/Maildir/dovecot.index, F_RDLCK)
>> failed: Function not implemented
>
> Dovecot tries to flush kernel's data cache.

You might need

volume plocks
	type features/posix-locks
	subvolumes posix
end-volume

Or equivalent in your glusterfs configuration


>
>
>> I think that I can disable mail_nfs_index to fix these messages. Has
>> anybody had the same problem, if so, how did you solve it?
>
> You could disable mail_nfs_index, but that if the same mailbox is  
> accessed concurrently from multiple servers that will probably cause  
> index corruption.
>

Aria Stewart
aredridel at nbtsc.org





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