Re: [Courier-imap] Courier IMAP causes filesystem corruption on cifs mounted maildirs

2006-07-20 Thread Brian Candler
On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 10:04:54PM +0100, Brian Candler wrote: I seem to remember there's a way to compile courier so that it uses a different separator, specifically for the case where you have a Microsoft storage backend. Google or search the list archives. Found it. There is a constant

Re: [Courier-imap] Courier IMAP causes filesystem corruption on cifs mounted maildirs

2006-07-20 Thread Stephen C Woods
Please note that there can be APPARENT cooruption when filesystems are exported via NFS or SMB such that the recieving machine may detect 'corruption' because some features don't cross the OS boundries (e.g. Windoz just hates filenames with ':', and Solaris 2.7 really dislikes inodes with

Re: [Courier-imap] Courier IMAP causes filesystem corruption on cifs mounted maildirs

2006-07-19 Thread Brian Candler
On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 08:11:39PM +0300, Mike Jackson wrote: Checking the mailbox with Courier causes filesystem corruption (wrong hard link count, and truncation of the message filename): [EMAIL PROTECTED] maildirs]# find jacksonm/ jacksonm/ find: WARNING: Hard link count is wrong for

Re: [Courier-imap] Courier IMAP causes filesystem corruption on cifs mounted maildirs

2006-07-19 Thread Mike Jackson
Sam Varshavchik wrote: Any filesystem corruption is due to a filesystem bug. A user application cannot, by definition, corrupt any filesystem unless it runs as root and therefore has sufficient privileges to open the filesystem partition as a block device, and scribble random bits all

Re: [Courier-imap] Courier IMAP causes filesystem corruption on cifs mounted maildirs

2006-07-19 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Mike Jackson writes: BTW, `rpmbuild -ta' from RPM 4.4.2 does not work against your newest tarballs (courier-imap and authlib) - complains about unpackaged files Works me, at least as of 4.4.1, and I doubt that anything of substance has changed in one minor dot release.

Re: [Courier-imap] Courier IMAP causes filesystem corruption on cifs mounted maildirs

2006-07-19 Thread Brian Candler
On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 07:45:01PM -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote: Any filesystem corruption is due to a filesystem bug. A user application cannot, by definition, corrupt any filesystem unless it runs as root and therefore has sufficient privileges to open the filesystem partition as a block