Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 29 Nov 1998 19:22:25 -0500 (EST) | From | James Puckett <> | Subject | Re: NFS in 2.1.130?? |
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RE: Comments by torvalds@transmeta.com (Linus Torvalds)
> O_CREAT | O_EXCL is fundamentally broken in NFSv2 - this is not a linux > issue, it's simply how NFS works. There's no way to work around it: NFS v2 > is so stateless that you simply cannot do locking with a O_CREAT. > > Linus
Is there any way to create a file atomically via NFS.. even without locking it?? What is the status of v3 and Linux??
Is there a "better" alternative to using NFS servers for email storage? May- be coda or AFS?? How are others using Linux to implement distributed email servers?
James Puckett Director of Network Operations Optilink Communications, Inc. (912) 245-8100
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