Corruption of index files

[Oliver Welter]

Hi List,

Am 21.01.2015 um 13:24 schrieb Oliver Welter:
> Hi All,
>
> after upgrading my mail server (dovecot 1.1.7 -> 2.2.13) I get tons of
> messages about corrupted index files in the syslog ("Error: Corrupted
> transaction log" and "Warning: fscking index file .. dovecot.index".
>
> I tried flock and even dotlock, but the problems persist.
>
> The system is a VPS with an overlay filesystem which did work flawlessly
> with the old dovecot install and is not reporting any errors in the host
> machine.
>
>  From time to time I get warnings about an exceeded inotify limit for the
> dovecot user - might this be a problem? Anybody has an idea what might
> be the cause those problems and how to track them down.

Some more debugging - I did a "fuser" on a broken dovecot.index file and 
see a lot of stale file handles, looks like something is not cleaning 
up. Any ideas are still welcome....

Oliver

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