[Dovecot] record points outside file error with dovecot revision 9116:9ae55b68cf61

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Wed Jun 3 19:17:01 EEST 2009


On Wed, 2009-06-03 at 12:11 -0400, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-06-03 at 10:14 -0400, Jonathan Siegle wrote:
> > On Jun 3, 2009, at 9:35 AM, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> > 
> > > On Wed, 2009-06-03 at 09:31 -0400, Jonathan Siegle wrote:
> > >> 	Are you saying that multiple processes on the same folder(INBOX) on
> > >> the same IMAP server can cause this collision as well? Is there a
> > >> difference between running multiple processes on the same
> > >> folder(INBOX) on multiple IMAP servers vs running multiple processes
> > >> on the same folder on a single IMAP server?
> > >
> > > I don't know. That depends on how GPFS is implemented.
> > >
> > 
> > 
> > Pick a local filesystem, say ext3?
> 
> But with ext3 you can't have multiple servers accessing the same
> filesystem.

But of course there are no problems (well, some very rare random ones
maybe) having multiple processes accessing the same mailbox on the same
server. Ever since I wrote my imaptest tool (a few years ago?) I've been
heavily stress testing multiple connections modifying the mailbox at the
same time.
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