On 3.10.2012, at 0.45, Timo Sirainen wrote: > On 3.10.2012, at 0.39, Cor Bosman wrote: > >> With NFS these files are created when a file gets unlinked, but another >> process still has it open. It disappears as soon as the other process closes >> it. For some reason they dont disappear. As far as I can tell we've had no >> server crashes that could explain this. One possible theory is that a >> rename happens after an unlink. In that case the file remains. This could >> possibly be a dovecot issue. > > How can a rename happen after unlink? The rename should fail. (Unless doing > rename(.nfs1234, something), but Dovecot definitely isn't doing that.)
You could see if this old test program leaves .nfs files lying around: http://dovecot.org/tmp/readdir.c Just comment out the line: close(fd);
