Does anyone else see skiplist recovery errors?

Scott Russell lnxgeek at us.ibm.com
Thu Jun 15 15:05:37 EDT 2006


Simon Matter wrote:
> I have had problems with skiplist dbs on RedHat distributions from RedHat
> 7.2 to RHEL4. But IIRC it has _only_ happened in case of a unnormal system
> condition, which has been a full filesystem or a hard system crash. I have
> never seen any problem with normal restart of cyrus-imapd.
> However, it may also depend on the way cyrus-imapd is stopped by the
> system. 

I'll second seeing skiplist seen db corruption under disk full 
conditions. I recall when I saw this looking around for tools to fix it 
but came up empty handed. That was a bit disconcerting.

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Scott Russell <lnxgeek at us.ibm.com>
IBM Linux Technology Center System Admin



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