On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 10:34:05AM -0400, Alain Magloire wrote: > > > > Subject: [bug-mailutils] gdbm over NFS safety > > > > Hello. > > I can see that the vacation action in sieve uses gdbm files. In our > > setup we have NFS mounted mailboxes. Is it safe to use gdbm over NFS? > > > > GDBM is multiple readers and 1 writer. So it uses a lock to restrict write > access on the database. IIRC, POSIX fcntl(2) locking is NFS safe but not > BSD flock(2), so you will need to make sure that your version of GDB is > compiled with flock(2) enable and to disable flock(2). > #undef HAVE_FLOCK >
I am not sure if the locking issues are all there is to it [1]. Anyway, I will give a better look to gdbm to see and if gdbm is not good enough I will search for db alternatives. [1] http://www.sleepycat.com/docs/ref/env/remote.html > > > > _______________________________________________ > Bug-mailutils mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-mailutils > -- Kostas Zorbadelos Systems Designer/Developer, Otenet SA [EMAIL PROTECTED] contact: kzorba (at) otenet.gr Out there in the darkness, out there in the night out there in the starlight, one soul burns brighter than a thousand suns. _______________________________________________ Bug-mailutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-mailutils
