Re: [Evolution] Problems with NFS

[NotZed <notzed ximian com>]

Problems with nfs locking were supposed to have been addressed,
see bug #5095 at:

http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=5095

If these problems still exist, please feel free to reopen that bug.

Brian is correct, maildir uses filesystem properties to get away without
having to do any locking at all.

 !Z

> On Wed, 2001-09-26 at 16:21, John Graber wrote:
>
> > However, I am a bit confused.  Will maildir eliminate this file locking
> > problem that Evo experiences when downloading mail from a POP server and
> > storing it in its mbox file in, for example, ~/evolution/local/Inbox?  Why
> > would Evo lock one one type of file differently than another?
> > Or are we talking about the same thing?
>
> *I may very well be wrong here, so anyone more knowledgeable than me
> should feel free to pipe up here*, but ....
>
> With maildir, there's nothing to lock; all mail resides in its own
> files.  You get a new message while deleting a message, it adds a file
> and deletes a file ... it doesn't have to lock the file for the new
> message to be appended, unlock it, then re-lock it while another message
> is deleted.
>
> Brian
>
>
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