21 Jul
2004
21 Jul
'04
3:30 p.m.
On 21.7.2004, at 01:09, Tim Southerwood wrote:
- O_CREAT | O_EXCL are documented not to work over NFS properly (see man open(2) on linux). So I knocked out the O_EXCL and combined with (1) dovecot will talk over NFS to remote mbox files.
I don't think it breaks even if it's used, it just doesn't do anything? Dovecot doesn't rely on it, it's just for extra safety in case it works.
Not sure - it does seem to do what it's supposed according to man open (fail), according to strace. But before I make those changes, the code has problems with my setup. After it works. The test28 works perfectly in this repsect at home where I don't use NFS for mail.
What problems? Does it print error messages? I browsed google for a while and it looks like that the O_EXCL problem is gone with NFSv3, except with Linux.
Would be nice if there was a summary of different NFS problems with different NFS clients and servers..