Re: Workaround for NFS locking urgently needed

Torsten Landschoff (torsten@pclab.ifg.uni-kiel.de)
Fri, 15 Oct 1999 21:12:43 +0200


On Fri, Oct 15, 1999 at 06:58:18PM +0000, Thorsten Kranzkowski wrote:
> Hello,

Hi Thorsten ;-)

> if you aren't actually dependent on the locking, maybe you can just get away
> with adding 'nolock' to the client's mount options. That also gets rid

I was using NFS with 2.0.0 - I guess there is no locking supported so I
probably don't need it. I am not sure though if e.g. mutt will do dot locking
if the functionality of fcntl is not available.

> of the 'RPC Error 111' messages you may see when mounting a NFS-volume where
> no lockd is running.

I never got such a message.

Anyway, I tried it before (therefore my posting was incomplete, sorry) but even
with nolock the program just sits there waiting for fcntl to return :(

Any other ideas?

cu
Torsten

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