Autor: Christoph Lameter Data: A: Piete Brooks CC: exim-users Assumptes nous: delivery timeouts Assumpte: Re: NFS Problem in Kernel 2.0.27: inode status not updated
On Tue, 31 Dec 1996, Piete Brooks wrote:
Piete.Brooks >lockd was built *specifically* to do locking.
Piete.Brooks >NFS is meant to hold bags of bits.
Piete.Brooks >
Piete.Brooks >It is of little use to have lock file based locking, if the MUAs use the
Piete.Brooks >standard method, i.e. lock.
MUAs use lock file based locking under Linux which is the standard
because of the NFS troubles. Does BSDI now have lockd?
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