Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 00:01:57 -0400 From: "Gary Palmer" <gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG> To: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> Cc: Adrian Penisoara <ady@warpnet.ro>, Gerald Ehritz <ehritz@dbai.tuwien.ac.at>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: pine 3.96 locks 3.0-980621 completely Message-ID: <17356.901252917@gjp.erols.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 24 Jul 1998 11:13:31 %2B0930." <199807240143.LAA02750@cain.gsoft.com.au>
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"Daniel O'Connor" wrote in message ID <199807240143.LAA02750@cain.gsoft.com.au>: > Err.. well isn't it kind of bad that the machine crashes? :) Yep > I mean it _pine_ crashed, then OK, upgrading would be fine, but when the > machine crashes, maybe he should upgrade his version of -current.. It won't change the fact that it is a fundamentally bad idea to rely on NFS locking for mail delivery/reading when we don't impliment said locking in the NFS layer... I know I seem like I'm trying to cover up a bug in freebsd by saying "well, don't do that", but I think anyone who knows anything about e-mail and NFS would agree that it is a fundamentally *bad* idea. (Yes, I know of at least one *large* (like >400,000 users) ISP in the US that uses NFS for mail & news stores. Doesn't mean I don't think they're stupid :) ) Gary -- Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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