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Date:      Mon, 17 Sep 2001 21:54:36 -0700
From:      dannyman <dannyman@toldme.com>
To:        Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com>
Cc:        "Robert J. Collins" <rcollins@hwi.buffalo.edu>, Brian Whalen <bri@sonicboom.org>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: redundant mail servers
Message-ID:  <20010917215436.V11099@toldme.com>
In-Reply-To: <004c01c13ffd$7b223640$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com>; from tedm@toybox.placo.com on Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 09:50:46PM -0700
References:  <20010917161215.U11099@toldme.com> <004c01c13ffd$7b223640$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com>

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On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 09:50:46PM -0700, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:

> >If you really want reliable mbox file locking on x86 hardware, you
> >might want to try Solaris x86.
> 
> There's already mbox file locking in FreeBSD you don't need to go to
> Solaris for that.  The issue is that there is not file locking in NFS
> under FreeBSD 4.X series.

You don't want to trust a "production" system to -CURRENT, though.

> And if Solaris is your idea of reliable mbox locking I'd hate to see what
> you consider unreliable!  We use Solaris ourselves and while it's locking
> is adequate, I've had a few weird deadly embrace situations happen with it.
> And that's WITHOUT using Network Flaying System!

When was this?  The Smart People I've talked to tout Solaris for NFS
stuff ...

-danny

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