On Thu, 2009-10-15 at 13:06 -0700, Brandon Davidson wrote:
Yes, we've got a pool of servers with Maildir on NFS with quotas enabled. Occasionally the users will run out of space and the indexes will get corrupted or out of sync. Our Helpdesk staff will increase their quota or help them delete things, and Dovecot logs a stream of " Expunged message reappeared" and "Duplicate file entry" messages as it straightens things out. This is a fairly common occurrence given the size of our user base, so I'm assuming this is the root cause... but this is the first time I've seen Dovecot crash as a result.
Well, none of that should be happening.. I guess I'll try some day again how random write failures to indexes will behave and if I can reproduce any of this. I last tried that with v1.0 or v1.1 and fixed all the related bugs.