Tomorrow I will answer more.

*** John Goerzen [2021-08-18 14:20]:
>I would assume that the creation and deletion of the lock file would add
>things to logs on various filesystems, which must be committed, but I could
>be wrong about that.

Creation and deletion are wearout operations of course, but NNCP does
not delete .lock files. They are created only once and then only
open+lock syscalls are involved (src/lockdir.go).

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