Re: [Dovecot] possible nfs issue

On 3.10.2012, at 0.39, Cor Bosman wrote:

With NFS these files are created when a file gets unlinked, but another process still has it open. It disappears as soon as the other process closes it. For some reason they dont disappear. As far as I can tell we've had no server crashes that could explain this. One possible theory is that a rename happens after an unlink. In that case the file remains. This could possibly be a dovecot issue.

How can a rename happen after unlink? The rename should fail. (Unless doing rename(.nfs1234, something), but Dovecot definitely isn't doing that.)