On Tue, Oct 04, 2011 at 10:05:17AM +0100, Andy Bennett wrote: > Hi, > > > Yeah, XFS has had its fair share of interesting failure modes along > > the way too - but it's not too bad with Cyrus, because Cyrus is very > > careful about fsyncs. > > I use Cyrus on XFS and I've noticed that, for example, the SEEN database > can get truncated if you accidentally run out of space. I assume that > this happens on other file systems as well, but I've never tried it. In > fact, I hope to never try it on XFS again either. ;-) > > I was using a Cyrus 2.2 on Debian Lenny at the time so I'm perfectly > happy to concede that this may well have been fixed a long time ago. > My databases will have been in skiplist format and I managed to recover > them by dumping and reloading with the information I found here: No, it's not. I have a bug in our internal bugtracking system for making sure we're robust against disk filling problems. We had multiple skiplist corruptions due to a disk filling problem a while back. Bron. ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/
