From 7fce3a0f815a7bc7a215d9221749d85fe8f7dbeb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joey Hess Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2015 15:55:16 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] more warnings about networked filesystems --- doc/git-annex.mdwn | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) 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` -- 2.30.2