Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1999 13:49:39 -0600 (CST) From: David Scheidt <dscheidt@enteract.com> To: Mike Walker <walker@usc.edu> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: vmpfw in pine via NFS Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.96.991116134758.14052B-100000@shell-3.enteract.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.10.9911161142020.9925-100000@skat.usc.edu>
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On Tue, 16 Nov 1999, Mike Walker wrote: > > If so you're breaking the cardinal rule of NFS: Never serve mail > > spools via NFS. > Why is this a cardinal rule? FreeBSD doesn't support locking over NFS, so you will get corruption of mailboxes if there are attempts at concurrent access of the mail spools. Maildir solves this problem. David Scheidt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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