Re: [bug-mailutils] gdbm over NFS safety

[Sergey Poznyakoff]

Kostas Zorbadelos <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hello.
> I can see that the vacation action in sieve uses gdbm files. In our
> setup we have NFS mounted mailboxes. Is it safe to use gdbm over NFS? 

In addition to what Alain said I'd like to emphasize that it uses not
only GDBM. In fact, vacation uses whatever DBM system mailutils is
configured with (old DBM, NDBM, Berkeley DB, or GDBM). So the exact
answer depends on the underlying implementation. As far as I know,
at least Berkeley and GDBM are reputedly safe to use over NFS.

Regards,
Sergey