On 01/25/2010 01:31 PM, Timo Sirainen wrote:
On Mon, 2010-01-25 at 12:57 -0500, David Halik wrote:
Jan 25 11:39:24 gehenna21 dovecot: IMAP(user): fdatasync(/rci/nqu/rci/u8/user/dovecot/.INBOX/dovecot-uidlist) failed: Stale NFS file handle
Well, two possibilities:
a) The attached patch fixes this
b) Dotlocking isn't working for you..
We're using this on NFSv3:
lock_method: fcntl dotlock_use_excl: yes fsync_disable: no
I counted and we see between 15-25 of these a day, so I would think that if dotlocking wasn't working it would be more? Don't know. Shouldn't it be using fcntl? I read on the wiki it still uses dotlocking occasionally though, so I guess you use both. fdatasync(/rci/nqu/rci/u8/user/dovecot/.INBOX/dovecot-uidlist) failed: Stale NFS file handle
Rarely I also see one or two of these: fdatasync() failed with index cache file /rci/nqu/rci/u1/user/dovecot/.INBOX/dovecot.index.cache: Stale NFS file handle
...but I'm guess the Stale is the same in each case, just a different symptom.
Just upgraded all the servers to 1.2.10, so I'll patch and report back. Might as well do it now. ;) I have one user that is good at letting me know when oddness happens and has had this a few times since they're logged in from multiple locations for mail.