Problem while deleting mailbox on a private spool on NFS

[Patrick Boutilier]

On 06/11/2012 06:15 AM, Arnaud Launay wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Michael Loftis <mloftis <at> wgops.com> writes:
>> Don't use Cyrus over NFS.  It's not safe.  You *WILL* end up with corrupt
>> mailboxes.
>>
>> There might be some NFS Client+Server combinations that are safe, but since
>> you've a Linux client I'm guessing your NFS server is also Linux, a known
>> not-safe configuration.  The reason is file locking doesn't' really work on
>> NFS.
>
> Is it still current ? I had to move the cyrus spool to an nfs server server due
> to space problems, and I'm getting some of those:
>
> Jun 11 04:11:53 nw2 imaps[27624]: IOERROR: locking index for
> toto.fr!user.coincoin: Unknown code ____ 255
>
> Linux 3.2 on both client and server, nfs v3.
>
> If NFS isn't a good answer, what might be ? Problem here is redundancy (the nfs
> server is redundant in a drbd master/slave configuration) and space...



We use iscsi instead of nfs now.






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