Re: NFS: more problems under 2.1.117

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Fri, 21 Aug 1998 21:17:21 +0100 (BST)


> I've been seeing more strange NFS behaviour under 2.1.117 even with
> Jes and Alan's patch. From time to time, xemacs stops in the middle of
> writing a backup file, announces it cannot write the file, the
> promptly rewrites it as the ubiquitous %backup%~. Could this be some
> race involving file locking over NFS?

Anything doing file locks over NFS has been broken for some time. Some people
see crashes, some see deadlocks in 'D' and for some folks it works. I've
not even begun to look at the lockd problems.

Mount everything with locking disabled

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