Newsgroups: news.software.b Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) Subject: Re: Cnews locking -- stale ones Message-ID: <1991Apr20.230302.5040@zoo.toronto.edu> Date: Sat, 20 Apr 1991 23:03:02 GMT References: <1991Apr19.154804.15684@zoo.toronto.edu> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology In article peter@taronga.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes: >We get stale locks when the network file system loses a connection to the >news host machine. I'm not sure what we can do about it other than have >a human to occasionally give an enema to the news system... Our recommendation these days is that news processing should run on the machine which has the disks, unless you have a network file system that provides correct Unix filesystem semantics. In particular, doing the processing over an NFS connection is just too trouble-prone, due to NFS's propensity for random misbehavior and semantic botches. Reading news over NFS is no problem -- NFS works acceptably as a read-only medium -- but manipulating files over it is a mistake. -- And the bean-counter replied, | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology "beans are more important". | henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry