Re: local locks

[Andreas J Guelzow <aguelzow taliesin ca>]

Joshua N Pritikin wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 11:41:08PM -0700, Andreas J Guelzow wrote:
>
> > If the app can't find a working gconfd then the app will be responsible 
> > for any fallback. This can't be gconfd responsibility since it 
> > apparently isn't around. I suspect that the app may use a hardwired 
> > fallback font, and on machine#2 that font may not be available.
>
> i have a small 4 computer network with NFS mounted /home.
> gconf-sanity-check-1 fails practically every day.  It's
> almost not worth using gnome because gconf is daily
> borked.  When can i switch over to local locks?

We have been running gconfd on a network with 45 machines and nfs 
mounted home directories for a long time with only the rare problem 
(orphaned lock files). We just found it important to have nfs working 
correctly :-) and the /etc/hosts.allow file set-up right.

We found the kernel nfs server to work the best.

Andreas

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