[Dovecot] Subject: Re: nfs_flush errors

[Hans Wunsch]

dovecot-request at dovecot.org wrote:
> From: Dean Brooks <dean at iglou.com>
> Subject: Re: [Dovecot] nfs_flush errors
> To: dovecot at dovecot.org
> Message-ID: <20080711050942.GA11555 at iglou.com>
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> On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 05:20:21PM -0700, Hans Wunsch wrote:
>   
> Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 01:09:42 -0400
>> Message: 7 Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2008 09:30:13 -0400 From: Ben Winslow 
>> <rain at bluecherry.net> Subject: Re: [Dovecot] nfs_flush errors To: 
>> dovecot at dovecot.org Message-ID: <4874BD65.1010905 at bluecherry.net> 
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Hans Wunsch 
>> wrote:
>>
>>     
>>>> I'm looking for some help with an nfs error that is filling our logs.  I 
>>>> get a constant stream of these messages:
>>>>
>>>>  Jul  8 10:47:08 servername dovecot: [ID 107833 mail.error] 
>>>> IMAP(username): nfs_flush_file_handle_cache_dir: rmdir(/var/mail) 
>>>> failed: Device busy
>>>>         
>>>  
>>>       
>>> What OS are your dovecot and NFS servers running?  Is /var/mail (or 
>>> whatever it may be symlinked to) an NFS mountpoint?
>>>       
>> We're on Solaris 10x86 mounting /var/mail from another Solaris 10 hosts via 
>> NFS4.
>>
>> Yes, /var/mail is an NFS.  These are the mount options:
>>
>>  mayor.ics.uci.edu:/mail_tank_001/spools     -       /var/mail       nfs -  
>>  yes rw,nosuid,hard,intr,bg,noac
>>     
>
> Are you using Dovecot version 1.1.1?  If you are using an earlier
> version (i.e. a 1.1 release candidate), there was an update that was
> made that eliminited these errors in certain circumstances.
> Specifically under Solaris I might add.
>
> If you are using 1.1.1, I'll have to defer to others to solve the
> problem.  I just remember running into those errors and having them
> disappear once I upgraded to a final release version.
>
> --
> Dean Brooks
> dean at iglou.com
>
>
>   
Thanks Dean. 

We are using Dovecot version 1.1.1.  I was hopeful after seeing the 
earlier fixes for Solaris too.  But now I wonder if there isn't  just 
one more similar fix that needs to go in.

Hans.