[Dovecot] nfs_flush errors

[Hans Wunsch]

Message: 7 Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2008 09:30:13 -0400 From: Ben Winslow 
<rain at bluecherry.net> Subject: Re: [Dovecot] nfs_flush errors To: 
dovecot at dovecot.org Message-ID: <4874BD65.1010905 at bluecherry.net> 
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Hans Wunsch 
wrote:

> > I'm looking for some help with an nfs error that is filling our logs.  I 
> > get a constant stream of these messages:
> > 
> >  Jul  8 10:47:08 servername dovecot: [ID 107833 mail.error] 
> > IMAP(username): nfs_flush_file_handle_cache_dir: rmdir(/var/mail) 
> > failed: Device busy
>   

>What OS are your dovecot and NFS servers running?  Is /var/mail (or 
>whatever it may be symlinked to) an NFS mountpoint?


We're on Solaris 10x86 mounting /var/mail from another Solaris 10 hosts via NFS4.

Yes, /var/mail is an NFS.  These are the mount options:

  mayor.ics.uci.edu:/mail_tank_001/spools     -       /var/mail       nfs -  yes rw,nosuid,hard,intr,bg,noac

Thanks,
Hans.