[Dovecot] Unbreakable NFS locking issues...

Seth Mattinen sethm at rollernet.us
Thu Nov 13 02:07:33 EET 2008


Rod Treweek wrote:
>     Yeah, Sorry, still kind of figuring out list protocol. Thanks for the
> responses.
> 
> I've not built this system, but I've inherited the responsibility of
> maintaining it, so I'm still kind of trying to gradually learn about how
> everything works together.
> 
> I think that the main things are:
> 
> fcntl; pretty sure that dotlock is what we should be using, however, I was
> under the impression that lockd would/could deal with the file locking
> issues, if it were present on both client and server.
> 

Maybe, maybe not. I'd try dotlock and see if it helps.

~Seth


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