From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Mar 25 19:22: 8 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from akira.lanfear.com (akira.lanfear.com [208.12.11.174]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8032C37B718 for ; Sun, 25 Mar 2001 19:22:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mwlist@lanfear.com) Received: from sapporo.lanfear.com (h-64-105-36-216.snvacaid.covad.net [64.105.36.216]) by akira.lanfear.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id TAA31887; Sun, 25 Mar 2001 19:22:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mwlist@lanfear.com) Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 19:22:04 -0800 (PST) From: Marc W Message-Id: <200103260322.TAA31887@akira.lanfear.com> To: Gordon Tetlow Cc: FreeBSD Hackers Subject: Re: Locking and Mail spool Files MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Mailer: Kiltdown 0.7 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Excellent, I will look for that. However, in the meantime, on older systems (3.x, 4.x, etc ...), is the below assertion correct? thanks! marc. Marc W, San Francisco, CA Kiltdown -- a free email client for X www.kiltdown.org -- it's what's underneath that counts. > ----------------------------- > From: Gordon Tetlow > To: Marc W > Cc: FreeBSD Hackers > 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 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 > > 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 data ... ? > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message