[Dovecot] Problems with dovecot using Maildir on JFS.

[Timo Sirainen]

On Sat, 2005-02-12 at 15:38 +0000, Willem Riede wrote:
> > JFS doesn't update directory's mtime when files are added, removed or
> > renamed in it. So Dovecot can't know when the maildir has changed
> > without constantly reading its contents. With Linux's dnotify this could
> > be kind of worked around, but I'm not really interested about doing
> > that.
> 
> [wriede at serve ~]$ mount | grep jfs
> /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol01 on /home type jfs (rw)
...
> Comments? Willem Riede.

So, does Dovecot+Maildir work properly with it?

I'm pretty sure I tested myself at some point that JFS didn't update it.
Maybe there are different versions of it?

If the problem isn't mtime, I can't really think of what it could be.
Guess I should build jfs support to my kernel some day.

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