From: Joey Hess Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2015 19:55:16 +0000 (-0400) Subject: more warnings about networked filesystems X-Git-Tag: archive/raspbian/10.20250416-2+rpi1~1^2~324^2~17 X-Git-Url: https://dgit.raspbian.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=7fce3a0f815a7bc7a215d9221749d85fe8f7dbeb;p=git-annex.git more warnings about networked filesystems --- diff --git a/doc/git-annex.mdwn b/doc/git-annex.mdwn index c28d8af6c0..fca499a7eb 100644 --- a/doc/git-annex.mdwn +++ b/doc/git-annex.mdwn @@ -976,8 +976,10 @@ Here are all the supported configuration settings. To support such situations, you can set annex.pidlock to true, and it will fall back to a single top-level pid file lock. - (Although, often, you'd really be better off fixing your networked - filesystem configuration to support POSIX locks..) + Although, often, you'd really be better off fixing your networked + filesystem configuration to support POSIX locks.. And, some networked + filesystems are so inconsistent that one node can't reliably tell when + the other node is holding a pid lock. Caveat emptor. * `annex.pidlocktimeout`