On Sat, Nov 10, 2007 at 07:54:15PM +0200, Timo Sirainen wrote:
On Tue, 2007-11-06 at 15:57 -0500, Adam McDougall wrote:
Two nights ago I took a leap and extended my testing of dovecot 1.1 by replacing 1.0 for the approx 15 users I had on 1.0. At that time I also for the first time tried dovecot 1.1 in a load balanced 2 server configuration with indexes on NFS.
I hadn't actually tested this myself. Would be nice if someone gave me access to a NFS test system, would be much easier to test and fix these problems. :)
I'd be more than happy to give you access to some of my servers.
I'll email you privately about that. If you think the corruption
is resolvable, I'd be happy if it could be worked out to provide
a better service to my users.
What OS are you using on NFS clients?
FreeBSD 6.2
Nov 4 23:32:23 boomhauer dovecot: IMAP(mcdouga9): Trying to close mailbox support.2005.01-Jan with open transactions
Probably some error handling path forgot to free the transaction. Would be nice to know how to reproduce it.
I agree it would be nice. If I see it again and find a way to isolate it, I will. Perhaps it is caused when a client gets disconnected for some reason. Could just be a symptom of index problems that could get resolved some other way.
Nov 5 01:11:43 boomhauer dovecot: IMAP(mcdouga9): Corrupted transaction log file /home/mcdouga9/Maildir/dovecot/private/indexes/.INBOX/dovecot.index.log: Unexpected garbage at EOF
Either writing really left some partially written data there, or attribute cache flushing doesn't work.
Nov 6 09:12:26 boomhauer dovecot: IMAP(walbyjon): /home/walbyjon/Maildir/dovecot/public/control/decs/.support/dovecot-uidlist: Duplicate file entry: 1189447198.M910150P10430.hill:2,RS
Sources explain this as:
/* This can happen if expunged file is moved back and the file
was appended to uidlist. */So that would mean that readdir() skipped some files and later found them again. But this shouldn't happen as long as Dovecot is the only one accessing the maildir, because it locks its syncs..
Nov 5 15:26:53 hill dovecot: IMAP(mcdouga9): file mail-index-sync-update.c: line 599: unreached
I replaced this crash with a nice error message. :)