Cyrus over NFS with _one_ instance

Henrique de Moraes Holschuh hmh at debian.org
Mon Aug 11 12:34:09 EDT 2003


On Mon, 11 Aug 2003, Ian G Batten wrote:
> Sun if the first goes bang).  Are there issues with Cyrus over NFS if
> the running copy of Cyrus has an assurance that it's the only writer?

Locking *must* work at all times (in your case, it needs not be
network-aware, but still it needs to work for the local machines).  Db3/db4
might need it.  Cyrus also needs it since many cyrus subprocesses need to
arbitrate access to the databases.

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  Henrique Holschuh




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