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From: peter@taronga.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: Cnews locking -- stale ones
Message-ID: <9IG3CC2@taronga.hackercorp.com>
Organization: A corner of our bedroom
References: <1991Apr20.230302.5040@zoo.toronto.edu>
Date: Sun, 21 Apr 1991 03:56:11 GMT

henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
> 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.

That's OK. I wouldn't touch NFS with a ten foot pole. I'm using Intel's OpenNET
NFA which handles everything, including locking, named pipes, everything except
shared memory. In this case we have modems on one machine and the News disks
on another, and it's better to have duplicates and occasional locks hanging
than losing batches.

"networked file systems" is not yet equivalent to "NFS". Thank the deity of your
choice for that.
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               (peter@taronga.hackercorp.com)
   `-_-'
    'U`
