From owner-freebsd-current Sun Sep 15 6: 9:55 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C72B37B400 for ; Sun, 15 Sep 2002 06:09:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtpout.mac.com (smtpout.mac.com [204.179.120.88]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3EA043E65 for ; Sun, 15 Sep 2002 06:09:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from leimy2k@mac.com) Received: from smtp-relay01.mac.com (smtp-relay01-en1 [10.13.10.224]) by smtpout.mac.com (Xserve/MantshX 2.0) with ESMTP id g8FD9r0e010004 for ; Sun, 15 Sep 2002 06:09:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from asmtp02.mac.com (asmtp02-qfe3 [10.13.10.66]) by smtp-relay01.mac.com (8.12.1/8.12.1/1.0) with ESMTP id g8FD9qVw004073 for ; Sun, 15 Sep 2002 06:09:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from David-Leimbachs-Computer.local ([66.156.165.23]) by asmtp02.mac.com (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id H2HDWG00.F4C; Sun, 15 Sep 2002 06:09:52 -0700 Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2002 08:09:52 -0500 Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.0 as a desktop 'failure' report Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v543) Cc: Matthew Jacob , current@FreeBSD.ORG To: "Andrew P. Lentvorski" From: leimy2k@mac.com In-Reply-To: <20020914173520.G91535-100000@mail.allcaps.org> Message-Id: <6C3D95B5-C8AC-11D6-AF56-0003937E39E0@mac.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.543) Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Saturday, September 14, 2002, at 07:40 PM, Andrew P. Lentvorski wrote: > On Sat, 14 Sep 2002, Matthew Jacob wrote: > >> But we need a window manager- let's build gnome2! That worked- but, >> haha, gnome2 refused to run because it failed to be able to do NFS >> locking on my NFS mounted (on a Solaris 8 server) home directory. Oh, >> well that's really not going to cut it now, is it.... Oh, well, let's >> live with plain sawfish until we sort this one out... > > Please report this to the Gnome folks. Given the state of NFS > filelocking > on *any* open source system (they are all broken in various ways-this > includes Linux and *BSD), requiring fully working NFS file locking on a > widespread windowing system is not a good idea. > Yes, the only successful NFS file locking I have ever seen on linux is on NFS v3 and it must be mounted with the "noac" [no attribute caching] option. I am sure that option degrades performance pretty badly. Give it a shot... see if it works > In addition, I would bet that they'll probably point you to some > command-line flag which disables that file locking. > > -a > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message