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Date:      Mon, 29 Nov 2010 17:35:32 -0800
From:      Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
To:        Adam McDougall <mcdouga9@egr.msu.edu>
Cc:        stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Stale NFS file handles on 8.x amd64
Message-ID:  <3DE362A0-68E6-4EB9-99C9-86ACA5E0BA75@mac.com>
In-Reply-To: <4CF44E2E.4070700@egr.msu.edu>
References:  <4CF44E2E.4070700@egr.msu.edu>

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Hi, Adam--

On Nov 29, 2010, at 5:06 PM, Adam McDougall wrote:
> I've been running dovecot 1.1 on FreeBSD 7.x for a while with a bare minimum of NFS problems, but it got worse with 8.x.  I have 2-4 servers (usually just 2) accessing mail on a Netapp over NFSv3 via imapd. delivery is via procmail which doesn't touch the dovecot metadata and webmail uses imapd.  Client connections to imapd go to random servers and I don't yet have solid means to keep certain users on certain servers.

Are you familiar with:

  http://wiki1.dovecot.org/NFS

Basically, you're running a "try to avoid doing this" configuration, but it does discuss some options to improve the situation.  If you can tolerate the performance hit, try disabling NFS attribute cache...

Regards,
-- 
-Chuck




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