[Dovecot] Index corruption causes child process to die

[Hr. Daniel Mikkelsen]

Juha Saarinen wrote:
> On 10/25/06, Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> wrote:
>> Do you use NFS? If so, then at least mmap_disable is needed. If not,
>> then it shouldn't really make a difference..
>>
>> lock_method=fcntl should work with NFS if you're using lockd, and
>> with non-NFS it should be working always..
> 
> No, this is on a local disk (SATA).  What is the difference between
> the three different locking methods?

(I'm also seeing this problem with FreeBSD 6.1 and Dovecot 1.0rc10 on
a local file system (ufs2 on SATA). I haven't tried the suggested
workarounds yet, I'll post the results when I'm done.)

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Daniel Mikkelsen
Copyleft Software AS