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Re: Bug#626061: issues with iceweasel3 and home dirs in nfs



On 11-05-08 at 04:04pm, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> [Holger Levsen]
> > sqlite doesn't work on nfs filesystems. (and Debian Edu uses home 
> > directories on nfs per default.)
> 
> As far as I know, sqlite works just fine on NFS.  I've used lots of 
> sqlite databases via NFS.  Do you have a source for this claim, and 
> more information on how it fail?  If it was true, gcompris and 
> OpenOffice would not work when the home directory is on NFS, and both 
> work just fine.
> 
> > This is described in 
> > http://gwd-tech.posterous.com/recovering-firefox-3-when-run-on-an-nfs-share
> 
> This one describe recovery after crash, and not a generic sqlite 
> failure on NFS.
> 
> > Currently I'm not sure how to solve this for Debian Edu
> > Squeeze. What do you think?
> 
> No idea.  Perhaps a tool to unlock a file, or rename, copy and remove
> to get rid of the file system lock?


Micah have a routine on his laptop to speedup Iceweasel by a) making a 
backup of the config data, and b) copying over the backup data before 
each start of iceweasel.  When I visited him a few days after Debconf10 
I tried cleaning up his script, and believe it should be useful for this 
purpose - even if not doing the speedup half of using ramdisk.

Here's the script: 
http://source.jones.dk/?p=bin.git;a=blob;f=localbackupiceweaselprofile;hb=HEAD


I got disctracted soon after leaving New York and have not yet started 
using the script myself.  If it does not make sense, then please do 
involve Micah - and keep me cc'ed.


 - Jonas

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