On Oct 26, 2005, at 2:08 PM, Bruno Lustosa wrote:

> On 10/25/05, Konstantin V. Gavrilenko <mlists@arhont.com> wrote:
> I have emerge OpenOffice 2.0 recently and noticed a strange problem,
> that whenever I try to access the file located on the nfs, the OO2
> hangs. The rest of the applications are working fine with nfs, and  
> such
> problem never happened with OpenOffice 1.x
>
> I experienced the same problem while trying to migrate a network  
> share from samba to nfs.
> Everything else worked fine with nfs. I could even open the OO  
> files in file-roller, for example, with no errors at all.
> Thus, I was forced to go back and stick to samba.
> Do you get loads of 'NFS server not responding' messages in your  
> log files as well?
>
in my experience samba works better for that sort of thing anyway.   
If a server serving an nfs share goes down, all the computers with  
that share mounted will go nuts, spending 100% cpu trying to get the  
share back.  Samba seems to fail more gracefully under those conditions.
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> Bruno Lustosa, aka Lofofora          | Email: bruno@lustosa.net
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