Mailbox list corruption

[Janne Peltonen]

On Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 10:15:08AM -0700, Andrew Morgan wrote:
> I'm running Cyrus 2.2.13 in a murder configuration.  My entire Cyrus 
> directory (spool and config) in on an ext3 partition with the following 
> mount options:
> 
> /dev/sdb1 on /private type ext3 (rw,noatime,data=ordered)
> 
> You shouldn't have any trouble with the "noatime" option (it gives a good 
> performance boost).  data=writeback gives higher performance, but may 
> allow corruption of files if you experience a system crash.  If you didn't 
> have a system crash or unclean umount of the filesystem, then I am at a 
> loss for why you would experience corruption.

There /were/ unclean umounts, which probably corrupted the lists in the
first place. I'm also at a loss for why it takes so long to do
ctl_mboxlist and friends with the given options - without them, it takes
only a couple of minutes. As does the mupdate slave synchronization
thereafter (I'm using the unified config with 2.3.8, invoca.ch rpm).


--Janne
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Janne Peltonen <janne.peltonen at helsinki.fi>