On 31.1.2012, at 2.03, Joseph Tam wrote: > On Mon, 30 Jan 2012, dovecot-requ...@dovecot.org wrote: > >> So, I was thinking about adding doveadm commands to explicitly tell >> Dovecot about the mountpoints that it needs to care about. When no >> mountpoints are defined Dovecot would behave as it does now. > > Maybe I don't understand the subtlety of your question, but are you > trying to disambiguate between a mounted filesytem and a failed mount > that presents the underlying filesystem (which looks like an uninitilized > index directory)?
Yes. A mounted filesystem where a directory doesn't exist vs. accidentally unmounted filesystem. > Couldn't you write some cookie file "/mount/.../dovecot-data-root/.dovemount", > whose existence will tell you whether the FS is mounted without trying to > find the mount root. This would require that existing installations create such a file or start failing after upgrade. Or that it's made optional and most people wouldn't use this functionality at all.. And I'm sure many people with a single filesystem wouldn't be all that happy creating /.dovemount or /home/.dovemount or such files.
