On 2013-04-22 14:06:23 -0500, Derek Martin wrote: > On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 10:14:44PM -0000, Mutt wrote: > > That is not sufficient with pre-NFSv3. > > No, but it's generally a bad idea to put temp files on NFS.
I agree. > By default, if you do nothing, they'll never end up there (unless > your sysadmin mounts /tmp from an nfs export, which would be dumb). This is not completely true. In the past, there were Unix distributions that changed TMPDIR to the user's $HOME/tmp (via shell system rc files), meaning that machines with $HOME under NFS would get temp files under NFS. I wonder whether such systems can still be seen... > And that's as it should be. Mutt currently doesn't deal well with > this case, but I'm not convinced it should try. I think it would be > better to document that it's not safe to put temp files on NFS. > > Another problem with NFS is locking, esp. pre-v3. Different vendors > got it wrong in different ways. Even with v3, the lock daemon sometimes crashes. Very annoying. :( -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
