Re: [Evolution] Evo 0.8 & NFS

[Berend De Schouwer <bds jhb ucs co za>]

On Thu, 11 Jan 2001 16:50:44 James Ogley wrote:
| > Desktop machine is SuSE 7.0, server is SuSE 6.4, news on progress may
| > well follow (if it goes pear-shaped that is)
| 
| 
| Well, same as Don Duck, configure with --enable-file-locking=flock did
| the trick...
| 
| Since most people using Linux in an NFS environment are likely to be NFS
| mounting from a Linux box, might it not make sense to compile with this
| option by default for the RPMs?

No.  flock() doesn't actually lock the file over nfs.  From the man page:

NOTES
       flock(2) does not  lock  files  over  NFS.   Use  fcntl(2)
       instead:  that  does  work  over NFS, given a sufficiently
       recent version of Linux and a server which supports  lock­
       ing.

Isn't the fix to fix your NFS server/client?  Or make the NFS client
mount the server with the mount option '-nolock', which makes fcntl()
calls always succeed, in effect turning it into flock().
 
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Berend                                  

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