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Re: mail corruption with dotlock/nfs

2008-03-05 15:04:27
On Wed, 5 Mar 2008, Bart Schaefer wrote:
Whether it's possible to convince linux to use cached reads but
synchronous writes is something I don't know.

Would you WANT it to? An NFS host could be accessed from more than one
client. It would be another flavor of corruption to trust a cached read
(and then perform an update based on it?) when the real files could have
been updated from another client..... *ick*

My 0.02 dollars.... :)

- Charles

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