Advice for file locking in ReiserFS

[Kevin Spicer]

On Mon, 2004-07-26 at 03:30, diego.lopez wrote:
> I know that Reiser FS has file locking problems, and I also know that this
> could result in mail problems like 'No message collected' and/or duplicated
> mail headers.
>
> I would like to know which is the advice for the file locking scheme for
> MailScanner for this file system (ReiserFS).

I've never heard of any problems related to this.  My production server
uses reiserfs (mounted with the notail option) running sendmail using
flock.




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