[Gllug] Knoppix on diskless workstation [Mini-ITX]

Jason Clifford jason at ukpost.com
Thu Jan 30 15:13:25 UTC 2003


On 30 Jan 2003, John Winters wrote:

> Currently though there's only 1 workstation so sharing isn't an issue. 
> I'm just puzzled by this locking business and am wondering whether it's
> some sort of file-locking facility that NFS doesn't support.

NFS file locking is notoriously "interesting".

Do you know whether you are using kernel or user space nfsd and client?

Allegedly the former is better for locking however I've not used it. I 
avoid nfs where at all possible.

Jason Clifford
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