On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 03:54:43PM -0700, Troy Engel wrote:
> Trying to upgrade from 3.36 to 4.04. Machine is RedHat 6.2, mailboxes
> are {$home}/Maildir/ (on an NFS mount). Spooldir is /var/spool/mail/,
> which is *also* a NFS mounted dir. 3.36 is working fine, even after
> backgrading quickly.
Having your mailspool on NFS is a sure way to lose.
> Anyone have a clue what this error means, and what I can do to solve it?
> (don't see any references, or I can't find them, in the archives and
> docs. I'm assuming it's a NFS problem?)
Almost certainly. NFS's locking gives no guarantees, operations are not
atomic etc. You do NOT want to be using NFS for your spool. Move your
spool to somewhere local to the mailhost.
Anyway, NFS is Not a File System.
MBM
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