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Date:      Fri, 23 Jan 2004 12:03:08 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com>
To:        Namik Dala <freebsd-current@nada.refused.cc>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: NFS: Processes marked "in disk"
Message-ID:  <20040123120155.A61090@carver.gumbysoft.com>
In-Reply-To: <20040121022923.GB17110@snickers.dahoam>
References:  <20040120144747.GB13132@snickers.dahoam> <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1040120202652.53972C-100000@fledge.watson.org> <20040121022923.GB17110@snickers.dahoam>

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For the record,

It is NOT RECOMMENDED to put mail spools on NFS volumes.  NFS locking is
not reliable and you WILL get corrupted spools or other wierd locking
behavior.  Particularly with FreeBSD where NFS locking just started
working in 5.x.  In 4.x, it was all a sham :-)

-- 
Doug White                    |  FreeBSD: The Power to Serve
dwhite@gumbysoft.com          |  www.FreeBSD.org



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