Re: [Exim] Strange problem whilst using Reiserfs

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Author: Suresh Ramasubramanian
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To: John Burnham
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Strange problem whilst using Reiserfs
John Burnham [exim-users] <07/06/01 12:19 +0100>:

> Ok, I have a slightly strange situation, I'm running Exim 3.22 on a Suse 7.1
> machine using reiserfs (the journalling filesystem). Very occasionally
> people have encountered emails that have merged together - it looks like the
> file isn't completely finished being written to before Exim starts appending
> the next message. The reason is probably down to reiserfs, but I wanted to
> ask if anyone else out there is running Exim with reiserfs and if they had
> encountered similar problems and, if so, if they had found a fix ?


Are you, by any chance, running qpopper? I have seen this happen once or
twice on such (thanks to the Lines: command being mangled, iirc - I dont run
qpopper)

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