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Re: Large messages causing "illegal seek" and "queue file write error" log entries

From: Justin McAleer (justinfehuq.com)
Date: Tue Mar 06 2007 - 10:01:50 CST


Wietse Venema wrote:
> Ralph Seichter:
>
>> Wietse Venema wrote:
>>
>>
>>> As far as I know, postdrop copies stdin to queue file without any
>>> need for seeking.
>>>
>>> It is possible that a buggy file system mis-reports file size errors
>>> as seek errors.
>>>
>>> What file system is this?
>>>
>> ReiserFS, on a SuSE Linux 10 machine with Kernel 2.6.13-15.13-default.
>>
>
> No surprise here. Reiserfs has a history of mis-reporting errors.
>
> Wietse
>
>
It does the same thing on EXT3:

Mar 6 09:03:36 pfmx0 postfix/postdrop[3768]: warning: uid=0: Illegal seek
Mar 6 04:03:36 pfmx0 postfix/sendmail[3766]: fatal: root(0): queue file
write error