dovecot - Mar 2009 - Deliver error - fdatasync_path

I see the following history in my log during message delivery:

Mar  1 13:35:09 mailserver postfix/pickup[21464]: 5FAFC2A002: uid=0 
from=<root>
Mar  1 13:35:09 mailserver postfix/cleanup[21526]: 5FAFC2A002: 
message-id=<20090301213509.5FAFC2A002 at mailserver.amfeslan.local>
Mar  1 13:35:09 mailserver postfix/qmgr[21429]: 5FAFC2A002: 
from=<root at mailserver.amfeslan.local>, size=367, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Mar  1 13:35:09 mailserver dovecot: auth(default): master in: 
USER^I1^Idmiller at amfes.com^Iservice=deliver
Mar  1 13:35:09 mailserver dovecot: auth(default): master out: 
USER^I1^Idmiller at
amfes.com^Iuid=5000^Igid=8^Ihome=/var/mail/amfes.com/dmiller^Imail=dbox:/var/mail/amfes.com/dmiller/Maildir

Mar  1 13:35:10 mailserver deliver(dmiller at amfes.com): 
fdatasync_path(/var/mail/amfes.com/dmiller/Maildir/INBOX/dbox-Mails) 
failed: Invalid argument
Mar  1 13:35:10 mailserver deliver(dmiller at amfes.com): 
msgid=<20090301213509.5FAFC2A002 at mailserver.amfeslan.local>: saved mail
to INBOX
Mar  1 13:35:10 mailserver postfix/pipe[21528]: 5FAFC2A002: 
to=<dmiller at amfes.com>, relay=dovecot, delay=1.1, delays=0.07/0.01/0/1,
dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (delivered via dovecot service)
Mar  1 13:35:10 mailserver postfix/qmgr[21429]: 5FAFC2A002: removed

-- 
Daniel

On Mon, 2009-03-02 at 07:31 -0800, Daniel L. Miller
wrote:
> Mar  1 13:35:10 mailserver deliver(dmiller at amfes.com): 
> fdatasync_path(/var/mail/amfes.com/dmiller/Maildir/INBOX/dbox-Mails) 
> failed: Invalid argument
Some OSes/filesystems don't like that. This should help:
http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-1.1/rev/71b7c7f8d7a2

I'm not sure if CIFS has other problems though. And I hope you're not
trying to access the same user's mails in two different servers at the
same time?

BTW. Is it intentional that you're using dbox format under Maildir?

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Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-03-02 at 07:31 -0800, Daniel L. Miller wrote:
>   
>> Mar  1 13:35:10 mailserver deliver(dmiller at amfes.com): 
>> fdatasync_path(/var/mail/amfes.com/dmiller/Maildir/INBOX/dbox-Mails) 
>> failed: Invalid argument
>>     
>
> Some OSes/filesystems don't like that. This should help:
> http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-1.1/rev/71b7c7f8d7a2
>
> I'm not sure if CIFS has other problems though. And I hope you're
not
> trying to access the same user's mails in two different servers at the
> same time?
>
> BTW. Is it intentional that you're using dbox format under Maildir?
>   
2nd question first - I am intentionally storing the mail in the /Maildir 
directory in the user's home directory.  I setup the server originally 
for Maildir format and then thought I'd try out dbox for fun.  Unless 
there's a problem with this...

I am NOT trying to access from multiple servers simultaneously.

1st question...hmm...wow.  Is that a patch you just wrote?!  Cool!

Hmm...since I'm running on a pre-compiled package...is this an error I 
can simply ignore?  Your patch seems to indicate you're just ignoring 
the result of the fsync call.
-- 
Daniel