7-STABLE NFS: fatal: "select lock: Permission denied"
Chuck Swiger
cswiger at mac.com
Mon Apr 4 19:05:23 UTC 2011
On Apr 4, 2011, at 11:58 AM, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
>> 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.
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> In my case, I have postfix+cyrus-imapd ...
OK-- Cyrus IMAP uses a variant of maildir, so you're relatively safe even if locking is not available.
Regards,
--
-Chuck
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