From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Feb 1 1:13:49 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from stumpy.dannyland.org (stumpy.dannyland.org [209.157.133.194]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 310043D7F for ; Tue, 1 Feb 2000 01:13:47 -0800 (PST) Received: by stumpy.dannyland.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id E624A3CF1; Mon, 31 Jan 2000 20:17:40 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2000 20:17:40 -0800 From: dannyman To: Jason Portwood Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NFS and the ISP Message-ID: <20000131201740.A279@stumpy.dannyland.org> References: <6381A6A8826BD31199500090279CAFBA0927A7@FOGHORN> <6381A6A8826BD31199500090279CAFBA089684@FOGHORN> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95i In-Reply-To: <6381A6A8826BD31199500090279CAFBA089684@FOGHORN>; from Jason Portwood on Sun, Jan 16, 2000 at 11:10:43AM -0500 X-Loop: djhoward@uiuc.edu X-URL: http://www.dannyland.org/~dannyman/ Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, Jan 16, 2000 at 11:10:43AM -0500, Jason Portwood wrote: > > With all the questions floating around about FreeBSD, RAID and NFS one > question > keeps popping up in my head. > > NFS file locking. How is that being worked around or has it been > added/fixed? Or is > it really a big issue? Last place I worked did qmail/Maildir off of NetApps. Maildir has no file locking issues. Those shell users who wanted mbox were s'posed to do a conditional redirect in their .qmail file so they'd only do mail on one machine. At least under FreeBSD, local file locking on an NFS mount will work ... -d -- come.to/dannyman To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message