Re: Bug#626061: issues with iceweasel3 and home dirs in nfs
Hi everyone,
On Sun, May 08, 2011 at 04:45:45PM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote:
> Hi Petter,
>
> On Sonntag, 8. Mai 2011, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> > 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,
>
> user information from Oslo :)
>
> Searching on the web confirmed this, ie https://launchpad.net/bugs/237970 or
> http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=192920
>
> > and
> > more information on how it fail?
>
> no, just what I desribed in the bug.
We had some issues with NFS over WLAN and iceweasels sqlite databases,
since iceweasel seems to insist on constantly writing to the history
whenever loading a web page, resulting in NFS being clogged by too many
simultaneous write requests in a classroom, regardless of nolock (but
sync and a lower wsize setting helps, somewhat).
We ended up providing a package that copies .mozilla from and back to
NFS, using /tmp/ as local cache, before starting and ending iceweasel,
dpkg-diverting the original iceweasel script.
http://rp.skolelinux.de/packages/firefox-tuning/
Yes, I know that a diversion is not the "recommended way". But it was a
good workaround for the time being.
Regards
-Klaus
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