Read-only bogofilter over NFS without lockd?

[David Relson]

Marek,

You should be fine.  As you know, corruption can happen when writing 
unlocked files.  Reading is fine.  The man page needs to be checked and the 
wording corrected (or clarified).

David

At 03:52 PM 5/16/03, Marek Kowal wrote:

>Hi there,
>
>I would like to share my wordlists over NFS. Manual says it is possible if I
>use proper locking and run lockd, otherwise I do risk wordlist corruption.
>Well, in my setup running lockd is not possible. But, but, but:
>
>In my production systems I do _not_ train my bogofilter on-line. Rather, I
>use separate machine for that purpose, and from time to time I copy
>resulting wordlists to production environment (training takes even few
>hours). There are few target computers on my network, so I have to copy the
>resulting files manually to each one of them - this slowly becomes real
>fuss. So I thought of sharing the wordlists over the network. Unfortunately
>- as I said - lockd is out of question.
>
>But - since I use my wordlists readonly - why should they get corrupted? Or
>is there some trick in bogofilter which causes the file to be written even
>though they are used for checking messages only? Or - I do hope - when using
>bogofilter in that mode the files can be shared over network without any
>problems? I guess it is so - the modification date of my wordlists does not
>change when running bogofilter. But I need a confirmation ;-)
>
>My options to bogofilter in production environment are:
>
>./bogofilter -b -v -d /var/bogofilter/current
>
>Hope you can help.
>
>Cheers,
>Marek
>
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