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List:       procmail
Subject:    Re: dotlocking issues over NFS
From:       Paul Sandys <myj () nyct ! net>
Date:       2006-12-14 23:38:25
Message-ID: 20061214183347.M28692 () bsd4 ! nyct ! net
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It turns out the hard option is default on FreeBSD. There's just something 
inherently wrong here. I see from source code that procmail creates a 
unique file and then renames it to the desired lockfile name. That should 
be bulletproff, but it somehow isn't.

P.

On Thu, 14 Dec 2006, Paul Sandys wrote:

> Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 18:09:50 -0500 (EST)
> From: Paul Sandys <myj@nyct.net>
> To: Michelle Konzack <linux4michelle@freenet.de>
> Cc: procmail@lists.RWTH-Aachen.DE
> Subject: Re: dotlocking issues over NFS
> 
>
> There's no "hard" option on FreeBSD.
>
> I tried having a Linux box deliver to the same NFS mounted directory and
> the corruption was much worse than with just FreeBSD boxes. I'll try the
> "hard" option on Linux.
>
> But as far as FreeBSD goes, the dotlocking is broken :(
>
> P.
>
> On Wed, 13 Dec 2006, Michelle Konzack wrote:
>
>> Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 16:30:43 +0100
>> From: Michelle Konzack <linux4michelle@freenet.de>
>> To: procmail@lists.RWTH-Aachen.DE
>> Subject: Re: dotlocking issues over NFS
>>
>> Am 2006-12-08 07:46:32, schrieb Bart Schaefer:
>>> I presume since you said that only dotlocking is enabled that these
>>> are "nolock" NFS mounts?  Are they also "hard" mounts?  Even
>>> procmail's careful lock file creation algorithm is not guaranteed to
>>> work on a "soft" mount.
>>
>> I had this problem for some years too.
>>
>> If you mount the NFS-Share, you NEED the option "hard".
>>
>> I personaly use:
>>
>> samba3:/home /home nfs rw,bg,hard,intr,tcp,vers=3,rsize=8192,wsize=8192 0 0
>>
>>
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