[Dovecot] Deliver error - fdatasync_path

[Daniel L. Miller]

Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-03-05 at 14:42 -0800, Daniel L. Miller wrote:
>   
>>> With dbox yes, you can just ignore the error. Maildir probably would
>>> give user-visible errors.
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>> Why the difference?  I can see a big deal for mbox - but why Maildir?
>>     
>
> It's just because of how the code was written. In maildir code if
> fdatasync_path() returns -1, the code continues returning -1 which
> eventually causes the entire operation to fail and an error be returned
> to user.
>
> With dbox the code just didn't bother checking if fdatasync_path()
> returned -1 or 0. With mbox it never even calls that function.
>   
So if dbox doesn't check - is that a "critical" function (I'm not even 
sure what it does)?  Is there any reason I shouldn't ignore the dbox 
errors and continue trying it for a new server?

-- 
Daniel