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From: Ryan Underwood <nemesis-lists@icequake.net>
To: linux-msdos@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: are there any limitations to use drive c on nfs volumes?
Date: Sat, 2 Oct 2004 22:42:30 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041003034230.GA12437@dbz.icequake.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200409241157.21654.Christian.Fischer@fischundfischer.com>

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Late reply.  I mount drives onto my AFS home directory and it works
fine.  I wouldn't recommend multitasking from an AFS mount though,
because AFS doesn't support record locking (which most DOS network apps
assume the presence of) ....

On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 11:57:21AM +0200, Christian Fischer wrote:
> Hi there.
> 
> I've moved my local homes to server based homes mounted via autofs.
> I'm running an foxpro application. This application starts but it hangs on 
> touching the database. Strace told me that the ressource is temporary 
> unavailiable and at statup of strace it tolds me
> "SHAREing doesn't work on drive C: (probably NFS volume?)"
> 
> I'm running dosemu 1.2.0.0 on Linux version 2.6.7-gentoo-r11.
> Please don't ask me why my dos app isn't on my local file system. Well, I 
> confirm that the local file system is the better place for apps than an nfs 
> volume. This was the first test and i had planned to do the the move to the 
> local filesystem for later.
> 
> Regards
> Christian 
> -- 



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Ryan Underwood, <nemesis@icequake.net>

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2004-10-03  3:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-09-24  9:57 are there any limitations to use drive c on nfs volumes? Christian Fischer
2004-09-24 11:20 ` Christian Fischer
2004-09-24 12:14   ` Claudia Neumann
2004-09-24 13:13     ` Christian Fischer
2004-09-25  8:27       ` Christian Fischer
2004-09-26  7:27         ` Claudia Neumann
2004-10-03  3:42 ` Ryan Underwood [this message]

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