[Dovecot] Unbreakable NFS locking issues...

Rod Treweek rtreweek at gmail.com
Thu Nov 13 19:24:24 EET 2008


Thanks for the response.  I also forgot to mention that this is on FreeBSD
6.3. Not sure if that makes a difference.

On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 4:07 PM, Seth Mattinen <sethm at rollernet.us> wrote:

> Rod Treweek wrote:
>
>>    Yeah, Sorry, still kind of figuring out list protocol. Thanks for the
>> responses.
>>
>> I've not built this system, but I've inherited the responsibility of
>> maintaining it, so I'm still kind of trying to gradually learn about how
>> everything works together.
>>
>> I think that the main things are:
>>
>> fcntl; pretty sure that dotlock is what we should be using, however, I was
>> under the impression that lockd would/could deal with the file locking
>> issues, if it were present on both client and server.
>>
>>
> Maybe, maybe not. I'd try dotlock and see if it helps.
>
> ~Seth
>


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