Re: Bug#39030: bugs.debian.org: heavy problems with potato: loosing mail!
On Sun, Jun 06, 1999 at 05:04:38PM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> reassign 39030 mutt
> severity grave
> thanks
>
> This looks like it may well be the same bug as #31441: dear Thomas,
> please could you check if it might be? Have a look at:
> http://www.debian.org/Bugs/db/31/31441.html and let us know.
hi julian,
well, i'm not sure.
we never had the there described phenomen, that mutt does not recognize
new mail due to the nfs caching problem.
we neither had chaching-problems, locking-problems nor data-corruption
etc before. but now, we have had a complete data loss.
the bug you mentioned is from january. but since half a year, anybody
has complained about the described effects. on the other hand, it's
interesting, that our failure occured in the last few days, and then
twice (but not reproduceable / hardly traceable).
i think it's important to track.
in the meantime, i have changed our configuration for LAN-delivery via
insmtp stead of sharing the mail directory via nfs.
if there are no other complains about mutt on an actual potato, it
sounds like the problem is located around the nfs.
> It seems from there that a 2.2.x kernel could well help you.
maybe. i know 2.2.x development was a hard work. but i *do* like my
2.0.36 :) and currently, the update/fix-frequency is quite high. i
remember times years ago, i could'nt await, seeing a new kernel :))
> Julian
many thanks for your help
- thomas
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