On Mon, 2008-11-10 at 13:32 +0000, Mark Zealey wrote: > Hi there, > > I've been seeing this error in our logs quite frequently on our nfs > storage (v3): > > 2008-11-10T13:24:26+00:00 mail8 dovecot: IMAP([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > nfs_flush_fcntl: fcntl(/var/spool/mail/XXX/Maildir/dovecot.index.cache, > F_RDLCK) failed: No locks available > > Which is because we don't run lockd on our servers. Why is dovecot > trying to use fcntl() ? I explicitly set it to use dotlocks in the > dovecot config:
mail_nfs_*=yes settings try to use fcntl for flushing data cache. There's really no other way to do it on Linux. Although having nano/microsecond resolution timestamps on NFS server probably would make it irrelevant. Hmm.
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