[Dovecot] Mountpoints

[Joseph Tam]

On Mon, 30 Jan 2012, dovecot-request at dovecot.org wrote:

> So, I was thinking about adding doveadm commands to explicitly tell
> Dovecot about the mountpoints that it needs to care about.  When no
> mountpoints are defined Dovecot would behave as it does now.

Maybe I don't understand the subtlety of your question, but are you
trying to disambiguate between a mounted filesytem and a failed mount
that presents the underlying filesystem (which looks like an uninitilized
index directory)?

Couldn't you write some cookie file "/mount/.../dovecot-data-root/.dovemount",
whose existence will tell you whether the FS is mounted without trying to
find the mount root.

Oh, but then again if you have per-user mounts, that's going to get messy.

Joseph Tam <jtam.home at gmail.com>