On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 11:40:12PM +0300, Timo Sirainen wrote:
IBM's GPFS on linux, which is a shared disk cluster fs.
So either there's some problem that only occurs with GPFS or it adds enough latency that a race condition somewhere can cause problems. Before v1.0 release I was running imap stress testing for many hours (reading and modifying the same mailbox) without a single error, so I doubt I can reproduce this myself. And if I can't reproduce it, this is going to be pretty much impossible to fix.
For Dovecot v1.1 I'm going to simplify the index file code so at least then this error should hopefully go away.
Any idea when v1.1 will be released ? The mail_index_sync_update_index failure is happening about once a day, so we need to get something done about it.. Hmmm, maybe setting the postfix soft_bounce=yes (as suggested by Jasper Slits) will be an acceptable workaround for us, as I don't think these servers should ever need to bounce mail (other servers in front of them should be handeling that).
-jf