[Dovecot] Locking problems on Dovecot 1.x in Maildir

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Wed Jun 27 23:35:33 EEST 2007


No, ext3 would be fine. I just thought /srv might point to NFS or
something. This is a bit weird though. There shouldn't be any bugs like
this with local filesystems.

You could try if mmap_disable=no would change anything, or
lock_method=flock or even lock_method=dotlock.

On Tue, 2007-06-19 at 18:07 +0100, Ronald MacDonald wrote:
> Well, I am actually using ext3, how do you suspect this might affect the
> reliability of the transaction log?
> 
> Ronald.
> 
> On 19/06/07, Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, 2007-06-18 at 18:04 +0100, Ronald MacDonald wrote:
> > > dovecot: 2007-06-18 12:57:59 Error: IMAP(ronald at rmacd.com): Corrupted
> > > transaction log file
> > > /srv/indexes/rmacd.com/r/ronald/.INBOX/dovecot.index.log: Seen counter
> > wrong
> >
> > What filesystem do you use?
> >
> >
> >
> 
> 
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