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Re: [bug-mailutils] gdbm over NFS safety
From: |
Kostas Zorbadelos |
Subject: |
Re: [bug-mailutils] gdbm over NFS safety |
Date: |
Tue, 25 Oct 2005 16:20:54 +0300 |
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On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 11:40:52AM +0300, Sergey Poznyakoff wrote:
> 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.
>
Your answer is very helpful.
As I can see in the sources, we can only use an old version of Berkeley
DB (v2). I am currently looking
between gdbm and Berkley DB. If I go for the latter (for performance
reasons), I will send patches for v4.3 support.
Thanks,
Kostas
> Regards,
> Sergey
>
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