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> <Q7F3W5C@taronga.hackercorp.com>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology

In article <Q7F3W5C@taronga.hackercorp.com> 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
