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From: Jason R Mastaler <jason@4b.org>
Subject: Re: maildir support in Pterodactyl Gnus
Date: 08 Nov 1999 21:29:57 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3u2mw8eyi.fsf@bodhi.mastaler.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Shenghuo ZHU's message of "08 Nov 1999 21:55:05 -0500"

Shenghuo ZHU <zsh@cs.rochester.edu> writes:

> It's really weird. Generally, `insert-file-contents' would not cause
> an I/O error. I guess the file is locked or maybe there is some
> problems with your file system.

No locking is the beauty of maildir which works fine over NFS without
any locking.  You can safely read your mail over NFS if it's in
maildir format.

> What are your OS and file system?

The maildir is NFS mounted off a Linux 2.2.x server's ext2 filesystem.
The client is Linux 2.2.x as well.  Pretty common setup I'd imagine.




  reply	other threads:[~1999-11-09  4:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1999-11-08 20:28 Jason R. Mastaler
1999-11-08 23:17 ` Shenghuo ZHU
1999-11-08 23:31   ` Jason R Mastaler
1999-11-09  2:55     ` Shenghuo ZHU
1999-11-09  4:29       ` Jason R Mastaler [this message]
1999-11-09  4:48         ` Shenghuo ZHU
1999-11-09  6:01           ` Jason R Mastaler
1999-11-09  6:34             ` Shenghuo ZHU
1999-11-09 23:36               ` Jason R Mastaler
1999-11-10 22:00                 ` Shenghuo ZHU
1999-11-16  0:02                   ` Jason R Mastaler

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