The Evil LockD Daemon! Beware! Beware!

Gerald Carter gcarter at valinux.com
Thu Aug 17 03:32:36 GMT 2000


papowell at astart.com wrote:
> 
> Mount not your server dependent files
> and directories on NFS shared volumes!

Ummm...this is a pretty known fact.  Maybe not documented as well
as it should be though.  Binaries from an NFS sgare is ok.  
Lock files are not.




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