[dovecot] Re: NFS mounted IMAP dirs

[Timo Sirainen]

On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 22:50, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> I'll add option to specify if we want NFS-safe locking for
> .subscriptions and .customflags files. But it isn't really high priority
> now.

Actually, I think I'll make them NFS-safe by default. I'll first create
a file.lock file where I write the new data, then I rename() it over the
old file. This way there's no need to do any read-locking which should
speed up the common case to access these files.