dovecot - Mar 2012 - dovecot Digest, Vol 107, Issue 20 Fscking warnings

Yes that is the google thread that I saw.

I don't see the relevance of your reference to dsync.
As I read the man pages for dsync it is used to sync separate servers, to make 
backups or to convert mailbox formats.

When I upgraded from 1.2.15 to 2.1.1 I saw nothing in the doco to suggest that 
dsync was relevant to my scenario.

In a previous thread here (Log sync errors), Timo suggested that the migration 
fix was to delete all .imap directories.

My understanding was that this should fix any differences between 1.2.15 files 
and 2.1.1.
If that  were the case, mentioning the migration again would seem irrelevant.

However, it seems that deleting the .imap files did not fix the log sync errors 
or the fscking warnings.

Both are still happening continuously.

Cheers,
Stephen

On Thu, 8 Mar 2012 08:26:55 PM dovecot-request at dovecot.org
wrote:
> Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2012 15:03:35 -0600
> From: Stan Hoeppner <stan at hardwarefreak.com>
> To: dovecot at dovecot.org
> Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Fscking warnings
> Message-ID: <4F57CD27.3000207 at hardwarefreak.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
> 
> On 3/6/2012 5:07 PM, Stephen Davies wrote:
> > Google tells me that these "should go away" but they
don't.
> >
> > 
> >
> > Seems to happen continuously while a user is viewing email.
> 
> Is this thread what "Google tells you"?
> 
> http://dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2010-October/053909.html
> 
> Timo is the creator of Dovecot, if you didn't know.  So you can take
his
> words for gospel.  Also note his last statement in that thread:
> 
> "The next time you could do it with dsync to avoid these kind of
> problems."
> 
> It would seem you omitted a very important detail from your problem
> report, which is that you recently performed a migration.  Please don't
> omit such critical details in future requests for help.  Provide as much
> relevant detail as possible.  This speeds the process up for everyone,
> and avoids guesswork on our part.
> 
> -- 
> Stan
> 
> 
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> 
> Message: 10
> Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2012 00:26:55 +0100
> From: "Marc" <M.Roos at roosit.eu>
> To: <dovecot at dovecot.org>
> Subject: [Dovecot] FW: Centos 6 + dovecot 2 + mail.app + imap
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On 9.3.2012, at 2.00, Stephen Davies wrote:
> However, it seems that deleting the .imap files did not fix the log sync
errors
> or the fscking warnings.
> 
> Both are still happening continuously.
If you're talking about errors like these:

Mar 10 18:21:38 imap(tss): Error: Log synchronization error at
seq=1,offset=26896 for /home/tss/mail/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index: Extension
header update points outside header size

and the following fsck error, then deleting all of the .imap directories should
get rid of them (maybe you didn't delete all of them? note that each
subdirectory has its own, so there's more than just ~/mail/.imap/).

Anyway, this is now also fixed:

http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-2.0/rev/dc88712581c9
http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-2.1/rev/1289b79241bb