Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 10:54:49 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: davidn@labs.usn.blaze.net.au, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RELENG_2_2 Message-ID: <199705151754.KAA15223@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <17811.863652120@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at May 14, 97 04:22:00 pm
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> > This is the real problem. Like many, I've been bitten by this > > when simply accessing a mailbox via nfs. It won't happen often, > > but it surely will. > > Anyone who accesses a mailbox via NFS is living on the ragged > edge anyway. ;-) Not if (1) you have working locking and (2) you use that locking in your mail programs and (3) NFS does not fail to meet its specification required commitment to not return a write request until the data has been committed to disk (ie: don't use SVR4 NFS, or if you do, modify the kernel variables controlling write gathering on the client and async write on the server to disable them so that the NFS servers become RFC compliant). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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