Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 30 Nov 1998 23:35:30 +0000 | From | Jamie Lokier <> | Subject | Re: NFS in 2.1.130?? |
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On Mon, Nov 30, 1998 at 11:25:29AM +0100, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > Debian Linux has an entry in the policy manual about the locking > protocol used for mailboxes. It says that all MUAs and MTAs have to > use NFS safe dotlocking as the locking protocol. So if you use only > Debian-packaged email software (and/or make sure the stuff you compile > yourself uses the same locking protocol) you can use NFS-mounted > mailboxes without any problems, and in fact that is just what we are > doing.
Does it do fcntl() locking as well, or only dot locking? I would hate to think Debian could lose mail by virtue of there being any other distributions or OSes on the same network, e.g. delivering the mail or running the server.
-- Jamie
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