[Dovecot] GlusterFS

[Aria Stewart]

On Aug 11, 2008, at 10:22 AM, Timo Sirainen wrote:

> On Aug 7, 2008, at 3:57 AM, Jeroen Koekkoek wrote:
>
>> I receive the following error message.
>>
>> Aug  7 09:38:51 mta2 dovecot: POP3(somebody at domain.tld):
>> nfs_flush_fcntl:
>> fcntl(/var/vmail/domain.tld/somebody/Maildir/dovecot.index, F_RDLCK)
>> failed: Function not implemented
>
> Dovecot tries to flush kernel's data cache.

You might need

volume plocks
	type features/posix-locks
	subvolumes posix
end-volume

Or equivalent in your glusterfs configuration


>
>
>> I think that I can disable mail_nfs_index to fix these messages. Has
>> anybody had the same problem, if so, how did you solve it?
>
> You could disable mail_nfs_index, but that if the same mailbox is  
> accessed concurrently from multiple servers that will probably cause  
> index corruption.
>

Aria Stewart
aredridel at nbtsc.org