[Dovecot] error in 1.1.2
Cor Bosman
cor at xs4all.nl
Fri Sep 12 01:26:01 EEST 2008
> >I've been following this thread: the bug is related with copying
> >mail across NFS in combination with cache locking, right?
> >Cor uses FBSD; but is this a bug that might impact other platforms
> >as well?
>
> The main bug here was that with lock_method=dotlock when cache file
> was being compressed, it could have tried to lock the cache file
> again, seeing that the .lock file already exists (created by itself)
> and waiting for it until timeout and then overriding it and causing
> the compression to fail. The OS or filesystem didn't matter.
After I applied the patches the errors disappeared. No problems anymore.
Thanks Timo.
Cor
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