From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Mar 25 20:35:55 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from harmony.village.org (rover.bsdimp.com [204.144.255.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2DFF037B719 for ; Sun, 25 Mar 2001 20:35:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f2Q4We933140; Sun, 25 Mar 2001 21:32:40 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Message-Id: <200103260432.f2Q4We933140@harmony.village.org> To: Marc W Subject: Re: Locking and Mail spool Files Cc: Gordon Tetlow , FreeBSD Hackers In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 25 Mar 2001 19:22:04 PST." <200103260322.TAA31887@akira.lanfear.com> References: <200103260322.TAA31887@akira.lanfear.com> Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 21:32:40 -0700 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <200103260322.TAA31887@akira.lanfear.com> 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 cases I'd lose mail when two messages arrived at the same time. They would both be written to the same place in the mail spool file, causing all kinds of fun corruption that took weeks to track down. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message