Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2002 08:09:52 -0500 From: leimy2k@mac.com To: "Andrew P. Lentvorski" <bsder@mail.allcaps.org> Cc: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.0 as a desktop 'failure' report Message-ID: <6C3D95B5-C8AC-11D6-AF56-0003937E39E0@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <20020914173520.G91535-100000@mail.allcaps.org>
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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
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