From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@swtch.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Recover
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 13:51:24 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ee9e417a0703191051t36421a20o8637699fc2bc635d@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <be3ca8b3ce5f672695d18ea9ebbc0f2e@plan9.bell-labs.com>
> Gorka, how hard is it to (add a flag to) enable exclusive access so
> that I can run mail or upas/fs over a recoverable link? I believe
> they open the mail file exclusively only briefly for modifying it,
> so a connection failure can only cause problems at such times (and
> then you can generate errors until the file is closed).
You should just access your mailbox via another protocol
like pop3 or imap. The way upas/fs uses lock files is just
not safe to use with recover. If the network is flaky you will
lose your mailbox.
Russ
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-03-19 17:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-03-19 11:49 Gorka Guardiola
2007-03-19 11:57 ` erik quanstrom
2007-03-19 12:05 ` Gorka Guardiola
2007-03-19 14:26 ` arisawa
2007-03-19 17:29 ` Sape Mullender
2007-03-19 17:51 ` Russ Cox [this message]
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