[Dovecot] fstat no such file or directory error

[Timo Sirainen]

OK, added to hg: http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-2.0/rev/d14b0fd0a423

On Fri, 2011-04-08 at 11:50 -0400, Mark Dieterich wrote:
> Timo,
> 
> I just wanted to follow up on this "issue".  We've had the patch in
> place now for a couple of weeks and it seems to be doing the trick.  We
> are no longer seeing these issues.  A bug has been filed with RedHat
> about the underlying issue, but who knows when it will actually be fixed.
> 
> I don't know if you want to roll this patch into an official release or
> not, given it shouldn't really need to be there.  I plan on keeping the
> patch around, just in case it takes a while for RedHat (upstream?) to
> release a proper fix.
> 
> Thanks again for your help!
> 
> Mark
> 
> Timo Sirainen wrote:
> > On Thu, 2011-03-24 at 13:19 -0400, Mark Dieterich wrote:
> > 
> >> IMAP(<username>): Transaction log dovecot.index.log: duplicate
> >> transaction log sequence (37)
> > 
> > This is the reason everything else messes up..
> > 
> >> IMAP(<username>): fscking index file dovecot.index
> >> IMAP(<username>): fstat() failed with index file
> >> dovecot.index: No such file or directory
> > 
> > fstat() should never return ENOENT. With NFS if the file is gone, it
> > should be ESTALE. See if the attached patch helps.
> 
>