Re: [Exim] Large-scale deployment of exim (Solaris/FC-AL/etc…

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Author: Elwood Blues
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To: Jeffrey C. Ollie
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Large-scale deployment of exim (Solaris/FC-AL/etc.)
> > However, using a lock file should (?) work.
>
> The problem here is that the filesystem implementation inside the
> kernel can't use lock files to synchronize access to directories and
> metadata. Your filesystem would quickly become garbage if two systems
> are trying to update the same filesystem at the same time.


Very true. People have suggested SGI CXFS and Veritas SANpoint Foundation
Suite HA to work around this.

    -F