7-STABLE NFS: fatal: "select lock: Permission denied"

[Marc G. Fournier]

On Mon, 4 Apr 2011, Chuck Swiger wrote:

> On Apr 4, 2011, at 11:09 AM, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
>> 'k, based on someone else's recommendation, I add 'nolockd' to the mount entry,a nd postfix now appears to work ... since I can safely guarantee that only the one host will have access to these files, that doesn't pose a porblem for me, but still find it a weird issue all things considered :(
>
> Be careful; multiple access from different processes even on a single 
> host can still run into locking issues against NFS filesystems, or data 
> corruption if locking isn't available.  You're most at risk with local 
> delivery to an mbox-style INBOX; delivery to maildir-style INBOX is much 
> safer even on NFS without locking.

In my case, I have postfix+cyrus-imapd ...


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