Re: NFS: more problems under 2.1.117

Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com)
21 Aug 1998 19:51:37 GMT

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In article <13789.45154.177053.914802@charged.uio.no>,
Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no> wrote:\
>
> 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?

No, it turns out that Alan turned on interruptible NFS mounts in
2.1.117, and that is (a) wrong and (b) won't work.

Oh, well. I'll make pre-118 patches for people to try out.

Linus

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