Re: [Evolution] Couple of questions - profile and bash

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Fri, 2018-02-16 at 09:05 +0000, Pete Biggs wrote:
> > Besides, it doesn't explain the slow startup (TB startup as normal
> > regardless of where the mail dir was), nor does it explain the
> > addressbook issues.
>
> I thought I had in the first reply I sent you.  It's to do with file
> locking. Evolution assumes that its private store of data (i.e. where
> it stores the "On My Computer" stuff) is local to the machine and so
> uses a particular type of file locking. File locks are a particularly
> troublesome area of NFS and some of the kludges in NFS to try and cope
> with it are nasty and horrible and slow. It's probably not helped by
> using symbolic links.

I'd suggest using Maildir as the local store format (rather than the
usual mbox). It's designed avoid file locking and should work better
with NFS.

poc