On Oct 3, 2012, at 12:35 AM, Timo Sirainen <t...@iki.fi> wrote: > 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); >
I meant the .nfs1234 indeed, but it seemed very unlikely. Thanks for clarifying. The readdir program leaves no .nfs files. We'll have to explore other possibilities. Cor
