HI,

I'm pulling my hair out a little trying to get dovecot to save it's index locally rather than in the NFS mount. No matter what I do it seems to save the indices in the Maildir on the NFS.

I'm using dovecot 2.0.18 on CentOS 6.3.

The relevant config I'm using:

mmap_disable = no dotlock_use_excl = no # only needed with NFSv2, NFSv3+ supports O_EXCL and it's faster mail_fsync = always mail_nfs_storage = yes mail_nfs_index = no lock_method = dotlock

# Mail location and mailbox format. mail_location = maildir:/%Lh/Maildir/:INDEX=/var/indexes/%Ld/%Lu/

Dovecot runs under the user:group vmail:vmail, and the user has write access to those directories.

[root@tay var]# ls -al total 96 drwxr-xr-x. 24 root root 4096 Nov 29 09:36 . dr-xr-xr-x. 23 root root 4096 Nov 28 15:26 .. drwxr-x--- 5 amavis amavis 4096 Nov 29 09:21 amavis drwxr-xr-x. 10 root root 4096 Nov 28 15:14 cache drwxr-xr-x. 2 clamav clamav 4096 Nov 29 03:49 clamav drwxr-xr-x. 3 root root 4096 Nov 28 14:21 db drwxr-xr-x. 3 root root 4096 Nov 28 13:35 empty drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 Sep 23 2011 games drwx------ 2 vmail vmail 4096 Nov 29 10:42 indexes drwxr-xr-x. 25 root root 4096 Nov 28 15:15 lib drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 Sep 23 2011 local drwxrwxr-x. 5 root lock 4096 Nov 29 03:49 lock drwxr-xr-x. 5 root root 4096 Nov 29 04:10 log lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 10 Nov 28 13:34 mail -> spool/mail drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 Sep 23 2011 nis drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 Sep 23 2011 opt drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 Sep 23 2011 preserve drwxr-xr-x. 20 root root 4096 Nov 29 09:51 run drwxr-xr-x. 9 root root 4096 Nov 28 15:14 spool drwxrwxrwt. 3 root root 4096 Nov 29 09:22 tmp drwxr-x--- 2 amavis amavis 4096 Jun 8 15:39 virusmails drwx------. 5 vmail vmail 4096 Nov 29 09:35 vmail drwx------. 3 root bin 4096 Nov 29 09:22 webmin drwxr-xr-x. 12 root root 4096 Nov 28 15:17 www drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 Sep 23 2011 yp

After restarting dovecot, and logging in via imap, I see the following under the Maildir:

[root@tay Maildir]# ls -al /var/vmail/vmail1/orphans.co.uk/m/a/t/matt-2011.07.06.09.41.05/Maildir total 56 drwx------ 9 vmail vmail 4096 Nov 29 10:57 . drwx------ 3 vmail vmail 4096 Nov 29 10:17 .. drwx------ 2 vmail vmail 4096 Nov 29 10:41 cur -rw------- 1 vmail vmail 248 Nov 29 10:41 dovecot.index.log -rw------- 1 vmail vmail 120 Nov 29 10:41 dovecot.mailbox.log -rw------- 1 vmail vmail 51 Nov 29 10:41 dovecot-uidlist -rw------- 1 vmail vmail 8 Nov 29 10:41 dovecot-uidvalidity -r--r--r-- 1 vmail vmail 0 Nov 29 10:41 dovecot-uidvalidity.50b73be3 drwx------ 5 vmail vmail 4096 Nov 29 10:41 .Drafts drwx------ 5 vmail vmail 4096 Nov 29 10:41 .Junk drwx------ 2 vmail vmail 4096 Nov 29 10:41 new drwx------ 5 vmail vmail 4096 Nov 29 10:41 .Sent -rw------- 1 vmail vmail 29 Nov 29 10:41 subscriptions drwx------ 2 vmail vmail 4096 Nov 29 10:41 tmp drwx------ 5 vmail vmail 4096 Nov 29 10:41 .Trash

[root@tay Maildir]# ls -al /var/indexes/ total 8 drwx------ 2 vmail vmail 4096 Nov 29 10:42 . drwxr-xr-x. 24 root root 4096 Nov 29 09:36 ..

Any ideas?

Matt