David Scheidt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
On Sun, 25 Mar 2001, Marc W wrote:
:
:Excellent, I will look for that. However, in the meantime, on
:older systems (3.x, 4.x, etc ...), is the below assertion correct?
:
You don't want to put mail spools on NFS filesystems. If you must, use
So, in a discussion a while back, it was established that file
locking is basically broken under NFS. Does this mean that it is
simply a REALLY BAD idea to put mail spool files on NFS mounts, or are
there ways that programs like /bin/mail can correctly ensure
consistency while reading in
Look for Alfred's commit of Mar 19th. There has been a *huge* overhaul of
the nfs stuff and (I think) a working lockd. I haven't looked at it
myself, so check it out for yourself.
-gordon
On Sun, 25 Mar 2001, Marc W wrote:
So, in a discussion a while back, it was established that file
.
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From: Gordon Tetlow [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Marc W [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: FreeBSD Hackers [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Locking and Mail spool Files
Sent: 03/25/01 19:19
Look for Alfred's commit of Mar 19th. There has been a *huge*
overhaul of
the nfs stuff and (I
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marc W writes:
: Excellent, I will look for that. However, in the meantime, on
: older systems (3.x, 4.x, etc ...), is the below assertion correct?
I ran mail over NFS for a while, as well as using a mail program that
didn't do locking to sort my mail. In both
On Sun, 25 Mar 2001, Marc W wrote:
:
:Excellent, I will look for that. However, in the meantime, on
:older systems (3.x, 4.x, etc ...), is the below assertion correct?
:
You don't want to put mail spools on NFS filesystems. If you must, use the
maildir format, ala qmail.
David Scheidt
In the last episode (Mar 25), Marc W said:
So, in a discussion a while back, it was established that file
locking is basically broken under NFS. Does this mean that it is
simply a REALLY BAD idea to put mail spool files on NFS mounts, or
are there ways that programs like /bin/mail can
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