From: Juri Haberland Subject: Re: Mailbox corruption on The NFS server Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2003 18:51:17 +0000 (UTC) Sender: nfs-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: References: Reply-To: Juri Haberland Return-path: Received: from sc8-sf-mx2-b.sourceforge.net ([10.3.1.12] helo=sc8-sf-mx2.sourceforge.net) by sc8-sf-list2.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1ARFby-0000WU-FH for nfs@lists.sourceforge.net; Tue, 02 Dec 2003 10:51:02 -0800 Received: from cartman.spoiled.org ([80.190.101.194] helo=a.mx.spoiled.org) by sc8-sf-mx2.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1ARFbx-0006rw-PM for nfs@lists.sourceforge.net; Tue, 02 Dec 2003 10:51:01 -0800 To: nfs@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: nfs-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: Discussion of NFS under Linux development, interoperability, and testing. List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: Shivaji Navale wrote: > Hi, Hi, please don't start a new topic/thread by just replying to another mail. Thanks. > We have this peculiar problem for the Mailboxes of users > /var/spool/mail/username. > The mailboxes get corrupted asto the first 20-26 lines of mailbox get > DELETED. > > We are using 2.4.20-18.8.um.1 kernel on the (LVS Director) which exports > the mail partition to 30 NFS/NIS clients. It's considered a bad idea to put mailboxes on a NFS share as there might be locking issues if two applications simultanously acces the same mailbox. Either use the maildir format or don't export your mailboxes via NFS. Regards, Juri -- Juri Haberland ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it help you create better code? SHARE THE LOVE, and help us help YOU! Click Here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/ _______________________________________________ NFS maillist - NFS@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nfs