[Dovecot] Plugins on a NFS

[Alex Baule]

Hi timo...

I Search in lib to see how the nfs_flush* works , and i see this too.

int nfs_safe_stat(const char *path, struct stat *buf);

can i use this too ? it's get a better handle with this + nfs_flush* before
?!

Tks !


2010/12/16 Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi>

> On Thu, 2010-12-16 at 09:30 -0200, Alex Baule wrote:
>
> > I Made a plugin that's works fine in a Normal Partition and a GlusterFS
> > enviroment too.
> > in NFS it's intermitent, some times works, some times don't.
> > Only the expunge part have this issue, i use stat to get the amont of
> hard
> > link in a file.
> > There is because of that (stat, hard link count) ?
>
> No, hard links work fine with NFS. If you have multiple servers
> accessing the same storage via NFS, then it's possible that stat()
> result is cached and the hard link count may be out of date. You could
> try running nfs_flush_attr_cache_unlocked() before the stat(), but that
> doesn't work perfectly.
>
>
>