Fedora 16 instabilities

Ed Greshko Ed.Greshko at greshko.com
Wed Jan 11 23:11:56 UTC 2012


On 01/12/2012 04:39 AM, Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak wrote:
>> - Libreoffice insists on making files inaccessible via nfs.
>>    A workaround is to edit /usr/lib64/libreoffice/program/soffice to
>>    comment out these two lines:
>>      ## SAL_ENABLE_FILE_LOCKING=1 ## export SAL_ENABLE_FILE_LOCKING
>>    but this must be redone whenever a new update comes along.
>
> That's been an issue for a long time, well before F16 - are you using
> nfsv3?
>
> I think open/libre-office work directly with nfsv4 (could be wrong).

The same problem exists when using nfsv4

>
> However, I found nfsv4 to be unusable as a home-folder-server in F16 -
> it was a huge source of instability. gluster is problematic too in
> F16. I've settled on moosefs as a file server. It works extremely well
> with F15 and F16 clients. 

I've been using nfsv4 since F14 *mostly* without problem.  In F15 had
the minor hiccough with shares not getting mounted at boot.  Had a
workaround for that, F16 doesn't have the problem.  


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