[Pkg-mutt-maintainers] Bug#666189: "fopen: File exists (errno = 17)" error when saving attachment to sshfs

[Antonio Radici]

severity 778801 normal
merge 664249 778801
reassign 664249 sshfs
retitle -1 sshfs unable to handle hardlinks properly
thanks

On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 04:31:26PM +0200, Louis-David Mitterrand wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 06:20:42AM +0000, Antonio Radici wrote:
> > tag 666189 +moreinfo
> > thanks
> 
> Yes it still happens with mutt 1.6.2-2 (haven't been able to install 1.6.2-3) 
> 
> In order to save an attachement on a sshfs mount with mutt I have to
> use "sshfs -odisable_hardlink"

I believe this is due to a bad interaction between sshfs and mutt, mutt is using
hardlinks to save files to the maildir but it seems that the inode number of the
hardlinks on sshfs is not the same as the original file and this causes problem:
https://sourceforge.net/p/fuse/mailman/message/33475658/

I've also merged 778801 with this bug and I'm reassigning this bug to the sshfs
maintainer to check what is that it is going wrong. For what it concerns mutt
everything is fine as we are using hardlinks are they are supposed to be used
and we are not seeing this problem on other filesystems