Re: mailbox integrity

[Willem Riede <wriede riede org>]

On Fri, 22 Aug 2003 10:58:25, Carlos Morgado wrote:
> 
> The only way I see this could have happened would be  
> locking failing completly, balsa deciding to sync the mailbox (after  
> some message deletion) imediatly after procmail starts writing and the  
> messages you delete are exactly at the end of the mailbox.

Plausible.

> Having said that :), what kernel do you use ? do you use mbox ? is it  
> on nfs ?

Kernel:

[wriede@linnie wriede]$ uname -a
Linux linnie.riede.org 2.4.20-18.9smp #1 SMP Thu May 29 06:41:01 EDT 2003 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux

Ordinary mailbox files:

[wriede@linnie wriede]$ file Mail/Correspondence
Mail/Correspondence: ISO-8859 English text, with very long lines

No nfs, but home is on raid1:

<df>
/dev/md5              36369648  13516600  21005568  40% /home

</proc/mdstat>
md5 : active raid1 hde7[0] hdg7[1]
      36949632 blocks [2/2] [UU]

Thanks, Willem Riede.