Error: file_preallocate in logs

Ricardo Branco ricardo.branco at wenn.com
Tue Oct 10 01:09:13 EEST 2017


Mail server runs centos 6.9 and so does the nfs servers, it is using nfsv3 on mount, underlining fs is xfs. 

On 9 October 2017 23:00:42 BST, Tom Talpey <tom at talpey.com> wrote:
>What OS are you running doveadm on, and what type of NFS server is
>hosting the storage?
>
>One possibility on (much) older NFS servers is that some of them refuse
>to extend a file when setting the file length to a larger value than
>the current size. However, that's a really obsolete behavior, not seen
>on anything in the decade, and isn't likely to return OPNOTSUPP.
>
>On 10/9/2017 8:29 AM, Ricardo Branco wrote:
>> I am getting lots of these messages in my imapd.log or while I am
>doing 
>> mailbox operations on the terminal.
>> 
>> All my mailboxes are stored on NFS and ive set the nfs locking params
>in 
>> the config, only one mailserver accessing this share.
>> 
>> Any ideas why this would be happening?
>> 
>> 
>> doveadm(ops): Error: 
>>
>file_preallocate(/var/vmail/ops/mdbox/storage/.temp.1507551663.P21424Q109M878872.posti2.dc1.wenn.com)
>
>> failed: Operation not supported
>> 
>> 

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