[Dovecot] rmdir() warnings with 1.1.rc1

[Dean Brooks]

On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 02:57:32AM +0200, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-02-23 at 13:17 -0500, Dean Brooks wrote:
> > Looks like there are still some Solaris rmdir() warnings being
> > logged to syslog in 1.1.rc1 in nfs_flush_file_handle_cache_dir():
> > 
> >    Feb 23 13:09:51 sx3 dovecot: [ID 107833 mail.error] IMAP(ran04): \
> >    nfs_flush_file_handle_cache_dir: rmdir(/var/mail) failed: Device busy
> > 
> > Manual for rmdir on Solaris states:
> > 
> >      EBUSY The directory to be removed is the mount point  for  a
> >            mounted file system.
> > 
> > We are using /var/mail mounted from NFS, which explains the EBUSY
> > return code.  
> 
> So you have mbox INBOXes in /var/mail?

Yep:
  
  mail_location = mbox:~/Mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u:INDEX=/var/indexes/local/%u

> rmdir() is the only possibility and EBUSY doesn't flush it. But I'm
> beginning to think that maybe this can be fixed for mboxes without
> flushing the parent dir cache. mbox files in general don't get deleted,
> so the flushing is probably pretty useless.

Ah, makes sense.  The errors in syslog aren't causing any problems,
but thought I'd mention it on the list since there's quite a few
of them in the log.

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Dean Brooks
dean at iglou.com