Re: nfs locking problem?

Gerd Knorr (kraxel@goldbach.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de)
Wed, 3 Dec 1997 18:34:43 +0100 (MET)


On Wed, 3 Dec 1997, Bill Hawes wrote:

> > nfs_safe_remove: //kraxel.lock.881160387.3674.bogomips inode busy?? i_count=2

> Hi Gerd,
> I haven't yet tracked down all of the conditions leading to busy inodes,
> so I'm not sure whether the above is a problem or not.
>
> If the removed file has a hard link, all is safe,

Seems not. While starting up pine, there is a lock file present in
/var/spool/mail for a short time (probably while it reads the mailbox),
which looks like this:

-rw-rw-rw- 1 kraxel users 0 Dec 3 18:25 kraxel.lock

No hard link...

Gerd