[Dovecot] FW: nfs troubles

[Timo Sirainen]

My guess is that the Sarge kernel is the cause of this. I don't think
I'll bother adding workarounds for that old kernels. Especially because
NFS is known to be not-very-realiable with such old kernels anyway.

On Fri, 2008-10-31 at 18:02 +0100, Bas van Oosterum wrote:
> Hi Timo,
> 
> The server and client both are Debian machines.
> Server: debian etch, kernel 2.6.18-5-amd64, nfs-kernel-server
> 1.0.10-6+etch.1 (v3)
> Client: debian sarge, kernel 2.6.8-2-386, nfs-common 1.0.10-6+etch.1
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Bas
> 
> 
> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> Van: dovecot-bounces+bas=ichthusict.org at dovecot.org
> [mailto:dovecot-bounces+bas=ichthusict.org at dovecot.org] Namens Timo Sirainen
> Verzonden: vrijdag 31 oktober 2008 16:59
> Aan: Bas van Oosterum
> CC: dovecot at dovecot.org
> Onderwerp: Re: [Dovecot] FW: nfs troubles
> 
> On Fri, 2008-10-31 at 11:38 +0100, Bas van Oosterum wrote:
> > I upgraded to dovecot 1.1.6 to be able to use NFS. Got a little issue: 
> > I can't move mail to another IMAP folder (so I can't delete to: moving 
> > to .trash does not work. Error message
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > Oct 31 11:07:45 jozua-mailserver dovecot: IMAP(nicolette at kerknet.org):
> > fdatasync_path(/var/mail/kerknet.org/nicolette/Maildir/.Trash/cur) failed:
> > Invalid
> 
> What OS on NFS client? What do you use as NFS server?
> 
> There's no setting that can fix this for you, except fsync_disable=yes, but
> that's not a very good idea with NFS.
> 
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