[svlug] NFS in 2.4.2 and fcntl locks

[Dagmar d'Surreal]

On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Robert L. Harris wrote:

> 
> 
> I've upgraded my 2.4.0 to 2.4.2 and the problem persists.
> 
> I just moved my home directory to my nfs automount server.  Since then
> when I run mutt or try to use mutt to save to local disk I get errors
> a number of times about fcntl locks, etc.
> 
> These are debian boxes.  The server has nfs-common, nfs-server and lockd
> installed.  Client is the same except nfs-client.
> 
> I can't save any email to my archive on my local disk. Thoughts?

Yes.  flock() doesn't work over NFS mounted filesystems.  Period.