[Dovecot] Broken dovecot-uidlist files

Ulrich Zehl ulrich-dovecot at topfen.net
Tue Feb 24 09:08:52 EET 2009


On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 12:10:29PM -0500, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-02-23 at 16:27 +0100, Ulrich Zehl wrote:
> > I did
> > 
> > # mount -o remount,actimeo=0 /srv/storage
> 
> To both servers?

There's three Dovecot servers (NFS clients), actually, and I remounted
/srv/storage on all of them.

> > > So allina modified dovecot-uidlist and soon afterwards laura probably
> > > was using a cached dovecot-uidlist and corrupted it.
> > 
> > Since the corrupted files are available for a little while (in the example,
> > it was ~ 15 minutes), will it help if I repeatedly check all
> > dovecot-uidlists and save those found to be corrupted to a special
> > directory, so that we can see what the corruption actually is?
> 
> I suppose looking at a couple of those could verify if it's really just
> NFS caching related corruption or something else.

Okay, I will post results when I have them.


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