Re: Workaround for NFS locking urgently needed

Miquel van Smoorenburg (miquels@cistron.nl)
15 Oct 1999 21:13:00 +0200


In article <cistron.19991015193227.A14023@linuxserv.pclab.ifg.uni-kiel.de>,
Torsten Landschoff <torsten@pclab.ifg.uni-kiel.de> wrote:
>Many programs do not work anymore when run on a NFS volume (e.g. /home...).
>They block in an SETLK call to fcntl. I need to get everything working
>without upgrading the server to 2.2.x.

Mount the partition with the "nolock" option

Mike.

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