[Dovecot] Quota over NFS with inode limit

[Patrick Domack]

Looking into this some more, all the log entries that cause this have  
to do with rename and EFBIG.

deliver(xxx):  
rename(/var/mail/virtual/xxx/tmp/1244513712.M557487P17017.5011.mail,  
/var/mail/virtual/xxx/new/1244513712.M557487P17017.5011.mail,W=2019)  
failed: File too large

I do see other accounts that are at/over quota for blocksize and  
inodes, and they are all failing on open or fsync with DIsk quota  
exceeded (EDQUOT I assume)


Quoting Patrick Domack <patrickdk at patrickdk.com>:

> I tried searching this list, but couldn't find anything related to
> inode limits except for linux quotas.
>
> I wanted to add sieve support for our users, so was attempting to get
> our email system to use dovecot's deliver lda to handle email, instead
> of postfix's virtual lda, using maildir mailstore.
>
> When I did this, I noticed that emails would get stuck in the queue if
> a user was over quota, this got fixed when I added in quota support,
> and set it up to check it using the line:
>
> quota = fs:User quota:user:inode_per_mail
>
> Now if a user excedes disk space via quota, it's bounced with a message.
> But if a user excedes their inode quota, it's still tempfail and hangs
> in the queue till it expires.
>
> I just wanted to know if anyone knows about this issue, if I made a
> stupid mistake or anything else, before I go digging into the source.