On Thu, 2007-05-03 at 14:15 +0800, Joe Wong wrote: > > > >From time to time, I saw input / output error on rename() or > pwrite_full(), for example: > > dovecot: May 02 05:46:18 Error: IMAP(joe): > rename(/fs/joe/Maildir/.Sent > Items/tmp/1178084777.P21895Q0M200058.tkodog.no-ip.com.com, > /fs/joe/Maildir/.Sent > Items/cur/1178084777.P21895Q0M200058.tkodog.no-ip.com:2,S) failed: > Input/output error .. > What could be the cause of this problem and the consequences?
Your hard disk is dying (or the network with NFS)? Syscalls should never return I/O error unless something's really wrong. dmesg most likely gives additional information.
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