Read-only bogofilter over NFS without lockd?

[Peter Bishop]

On 16 May 2003 at 16:02, David Relson wrote:

> 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).
> 
I'm not sure about this, but is there a risk if you try to read a fike via 
NFS while the databases are being updated? You say this takes several 
hours. Is it certain that the wordlists can always be read safely during 
this time?

Perhaps it might be safer to:
1) copy the databases
2) train the copy
3) copy the the updated files back (or rename them to as the work files)

This should reduce the risk of reading the database in a part-updated state


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Peter Bishop 
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