similar to: Dovecot fsync question

Hi, I need to place a maildir storage on a NFS filesystem, so I set up the config like this: mmap_disable = yes mail_nfs_storage = yes mail_nfs_index = yes mail_fsync = always lock_method = dotlock (also tried fcntl - local lockd is running, no success, now using dotlock, to be sure while debugging) The problem is that Dovecot (2.2.9/2.2.10 - the relevant code in mail-index.c is the same) logs

Does Fsync of a file on a ext3 fs mounted with "ordered" option(the default) result in flush the dirty data buffers in the fs that correspond to previous transactions. In other words, if I keep writing to file1 (lots of data), log something to file2, keep fsyncing file2 after every write - does this mean file1 data would be committed by fsyncs on file2. Please copy me on your replies

# 2.3.4.1 (f79e8e7e4): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf Hello, we're using mail on NFS and the indexes on localdisk, with a director setup. (18K+ users) now to get more performance i thought to use the ITERINDEX option. however this has the side-effect on some mailboxes that it doesn't show the subfolders under INBOX. they seem 'disappeared'. Removing the ITERINDEX option fixes this

Update: seems to me that the old cyrus mailserver already uses these non-unique mailbox guids. Is it necessary to have them unique over all private namespaces? Thanks Christian ----------------urspr?ngliche Nachricht----------------- Von:Christian Binder Stadt Freilassing [christian.binder at freilassing.de ] An:"dovecot dovecot.org" [dovecot at dovecot.org ] Datum:Thu, 29 Jan 2015

If mailbox guids should be unique systemwide, would it be safe to delete all 'dovecot-uidlist' files of the user's mailboxes and then do a doveadm force-resync after mailbox migration? Thanks! Christian ----------------urspr?ngliche Nachricht----------------- Von: Christian Binder Stadt Freilassing [christian.binder at freilassing.de ] An: "dovecot dovecot.org" [dovecot

Am 21.07.2017 um 19:47 schrieb Bruce Guenter: > > I am running Dovecot IMAP on Linux, on a LizardFS storage cluster with > Maildir storage. This has worked well for most of the accounts for > several months. > > However in the last couple of weeks we are seeing increasing errors > regarding corrupted index files. you should avoid this one solution is to use loadbalancers

Hi all, I'm using dovecot since a few months and it works great. But a few days ago some coworkers mentioned that they got errormessages in their Mailapp. I searched in the logfiles and found this: Sep 14 12:07:35 Mailserv dovecot: IMAP(eckhard-ma-domain-com): fsync(/home/eckhard-ma-domain-com/mails/.INBOX.0002-Druckangebote von Druckereien.0002-schmerk

On 02/13/2018 03:00 PM, Andrew Beck wrote: > In https://wiki2.dovecot.org/Tools/Doveadm/Sync#section_arguments the destination list 5 possible options for the destination > > but in the page on migration https://wiki2.dovecot.org/Migration/Dsync it seems to use a sixth undocumented "imapc:" option for destination > > e.g. > > doveadm -o mail_fsync=never backup -R -u

Hi, I have a question on fsync() and ext3's journaling modes. Assume that I call fsync(fd) on a file. If that file is in 'data=journal' mode, would the fsync() return once the data gets safely into the journal ? On the other hand, if that file is in 'data=writeback' mode, would the fsync() return only when the data gets safely into its actual location ? Any help is

Hello, We found that fsync and fdatasync syscalls sometimes don't sync data in an ext3 file system under the following conditions. 1. Kernel version is 2.6.6 or later (including 2.6.8.1 and 2.6.9-rc2). 2. Ext3's journalling mode is "data=journal". 3. Create a file (whose size is 1Mbytes) and execute umount/mount. 4. lseek to a random position within the file, write 8192 bytes

I'm currently looking at the behaviour of various Linux filesystems as backends for the Cyrus IMAP server. Like many mail applications, Cyrus makes heavy use of the fsync() system call to ensure that data has hit stable storage before it acknowledges receipt of messages. At the moment fsync() appears to introduce lots of synchronous I/O as data is flushed all the way through to the filesystem

Libvirt has a fixed 15 second timeout for qemu to exit. If qemu is writing to a slow USB key, it can hang (in D state) for much longer than this - many minutes usually. To work around this, fsync the output file before closing the libvirt connection so that qemu shouldn't have anything (much) to write. We have to do this in a few places in the code. This is a hack - it would be better to

Hi, Johannes: > So whatever you do, it's probably best to assume that the fsync() operation on > your dir fd is going to fail, and route around that (potential) failure as > best as you can. Thanks very much for this information. Is this documented? So that I can report this to my boss. I googled this for sort of time. Thanks again! Best Regards Cao 在 2018年02月02日 20:59,

Hi! Afair, fsync()ing a directory is subject to platform-specific and implementation-defined behaviour, and may either - work as you'd want and (probably) expect - fail with an error - fail silently at least if your application targets more than one operating system/kernel - and even on one and the same platform, different filesystems might exhibit sublty different patterns of behaviour.

On Sun, 11 Apr 2010 18:03:00 +0300, Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> wrote: > On 04/09/2010 05:56 PM, Ben Gamari wrote: > > On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 00:08:58 +0200, Andi Kleen<andi@firstfloor.org> wrote: > > > >> Ben Gamari<bgamari.foss@gmail.com> writes: > >> ext4/XFS/JFS/btrfs should be better in this regard > >> > >> >

In order to improve the performance of fsync, we use the outstanding ordered extents to avoid looking up the checksum from the csum tree. But we didn''t filter out the ordered extents whose csum is still being calculated, when we got those ordered extents, we had to wait for the csum calculation. It made the performance dropped down suddenly. (On my box, it drop down from 56MB/s to

Hi Jeff, On 07/03/2010 03:58 AM, Jeff Moyer wrote: > Hi, > > Running iozone or fs_mark with fsync enabled, the performance of CFQ is > far worse than that of deadline for enterprise class storage when dealing > with file sizes of 8MB or less. I used the following command line as a > representative test case: > > fs_mark -S 1 -D 10000 -N 100000 -d /mnt/test/fs_mark -s

Libvirt has a fixed 15 second timeout for qemu to exit. If qemu is writing to a slow USB key, it can hang (in D state) for much longer than this - many minutes usually. To work around this, fsync the output file before closing the libvirt connection so that qemu shouldn't have anything (much) to write. We have to do this in two places in the code since we can reopen the connection (if using

Btrfs had some issues with fsync()''ing directories and fsync()''ing after renames. These three new tests cover the 3 different issues we were seeing. This breaks out the dmflakey stuff into a common helper to be shared between generic/311 and generic/320. Thanks, Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fusionio.com> --- V1->V2: moved this out into its own test instead of

If I want to make sure a file has really been deleted do I have to: 1. fsync the file 2. fsync the directory the file is in 3. both? Much thanks. -- Ben Escoto