[Dovecot] Quota over NFS with inode limit

[Timo Sirainen]

Dovecot always renames files when moving from tmp/, you can't make it  
use hard links. The maildir_copy_with_hardlinks is only about how to  
copy messages from one mailbox to another, and it's enabled by default  
in v1.1+.

Wonder if this affects rename() only when moving from one directory to  
another, or also within a directory? So if you're out of inodes and  
you change a message flag, does rename() succeed?

On Jun 11, 2009, at 8:34 AM, Patrick Domack wrote:

> 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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