[Dovecot] (1.0.13) fsync failed: Disk quota exceeded for some accounts

[Timo Sirainen]

On Thu, 2008-11-06 at 11:30 +0100, Eric Marin wrote:
> So far, so good, except that for *some* users (and I can't seem to find anything unusual about their 
> account), one gets this in /var/log/mail.log :
> Nov  6 10:42:24 vega deliver(studentx): 
> fsync(/voletu/users/studentx/Maildir/tmp/1225964544.P25878Q0M80993.vega) failed: Disk quota exceeded

Strange that no-one had complained about this before. The problem is
that your kernel is caching writes and it doesn't know the user is over
quota. So then when fsync() finally gets called the kernel writes the
data to NFS server, which replies that quota exceeded.

This fixes it: http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-1.0/rev/9879434a6339

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