[Dovecot] All index file bugs fixed(?)
Rainer Ophoven
rainer at route66.homelinux.net
Fri Jan 19 22:55:28 UTC 2007
Timo Sirainen wrote:
> I fixed the nightly snapshot building. Now it's again being built every
> night (if there have been any changes). Please test it before I'll make
> rc18 release. http://dovecot.org/nightly/dovecot-latest.tar.gz
>
> I've also been stress testing a lot with
> http://dovecot.org/tools/imaptest.c. Last night I ran it for 9 hours
> with mmap_disable=yes and it picked up only one race condition, which is
> also now fixed. I'll run the next night with mmap_disable=no and see if
> anything shows up with it.
>
> I'm hopeful that there aren't any important index file related bugs left
> anymore. This is actually the first time in Dovecot's existence that I'm
> really not aware of *any* bugs in index file handling.
>
> v1.0 release should be really near now, unless you figure out new
> problems :)
>
> Here's a list of bugs that should have been fixed since rc17:
>
> "Corrupted index file dovecot.index: Record field keywords points outside record size (12 < 12+2)"
> "Corrupted Index file dovecot.index: Record [1].uid=0"
> Crashes
> - http://dovecot.org/list/dovecot-cvs/2007-January/007395.html
>
> "open() failed with file dovecot.index.log: No such file or directory"
> - http://dovecot.org/list/dovecot-cvs/2007-January/007405.html
>
> "Fixed index file dovecot.index: seen_messages_count 8 -> 9"
> "View synchronization from transaction log failed: Deleted counter
> wrong"
> etc.
> - http://dovecot.org/list/dovecot-cvs/2007-January/007403.html
>
> Corrupted transaction log errors:
> - http://dovecot.org/list/dovecot-cvs/2007-January/007389.html
> - http://dovecot.org/list/dovecot-cvs/2007-January/007393.html
>
> Corrupted view errors:
> - http://dovecot.org/list/dovecot-cvs/2007-January/007366.html
> - http://dovecot.org/list/dovecot-cvs/2007-January/007368.html
>
> Corrupted cache file errors:
> - http://dovecot.org/list/dovecot-cvs/2007-January/007364.html
>
> Fixed a lot of crashes whenever something went wrong (I deleted index
> files every 3 seconds until it crashed, last run went for several
> minutes before I stopped trying):
> - http://dovecot.org/list/dovecot-cvs/2007-January/007397.html
>
it happened again (with nightly/dovecot-latest):
Error: IMAP(rainer): Fixed index file
/home/rainer/Maildir/.INBOX.amavisd/dovecot.index:
first_recent_uid_lowwater 199 -> 198
--
in diesem Sinne,
Rainer
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