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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    Re: Bug#45545: marked as done (Mail disappears from inbox) by Carsten Burghardt <cb@magic-shop.de>
From:       Waldo Bastian <bastian () kde ! org>
Date:       2002-08-10 0:38:01
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On Friday 09 August 2002 05:18 pm, Ingo Klöcker wrote:
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> On Saturday 10 August 2002 00:56, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> > Can it be that writing to mbox followed by a stat yields mbox(mbox)
> > == time(local machine) because the NFS clients caches that
> > information instead of querying the NFS server?
>
> This seems to be the case.
>
> > If so, it might help to create a link from mbox.<unique number> to
> > mbox and stat this link instead. (I believe you need to use a
> > hardlink and not a symlink) The idea is that this forces a round trip
> > to the NFS server so that you get the actual mtime of the mbox at the
> > server instead of the incorrect cached version.
>
> I'm against adding some ugly workaround for the crappiness of NFS to
> KMail. If the clocks of the machines are in sync there is no problem.
> And synching the clocks in a local network is a pretty standard
> requirement, isn't it? Someone who can setup an NFS server should also
> be able to setup xntpd.
>
> If you want to implement such a super ugly workaround please go ahead.

It shouldn't be necassery but NFS is rather used a lot. Making the reliability 
of KMail depend on human factors in such environment is a wrong decission 
IMO.

I will try to come up with a "superugly patch" once I have a NFS server 
running here :-)

Cheers,
Waldo
-- 
bastian@kde.org  |   SuSE Labs KDE Developer  |  bastian@suse.com

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