[Dovecot] Quota over NFS with inode limit

Patrick Domack patrickdk at patrickdk.com
Thu Jun 11 15:34:48 EEST 2009


Hmm, looking at how postfix handles this, it hardlinks the files, so I  
guess I could turn on hardlinking that way rename isn't used, and  
won't get this error.

But probably still something to look into?

Quoting Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi>:

> On Jun 10, 2009, at 1:51 PM, Patrick Domack wrote:
>
>> Looking into this some more, all the log entries that cause this   
>> have to do with rename and EFBIG.
>>
>> deliver(xxx):   
>> rename(/var/mail/virtual/xxx/tmp/1244513712.M557487P17017.5011.mail,   
>> /var/mail/virtual/xxx/new/1244513712.M557487P17017.5011.mail,W=2019)   
>> failed: File too large
>
> That looks weird. So this is with Linux as NFS client? What do you use
> as NFS server? To me this feels like NFS server bug..





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