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| author |  Joey Hess <joeyh@joeyh.name> | 2015-11-13 15:55:16 -0400 |
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| committer | Joey Hess <joeyh@joeyh.name> | 2015-11-13 15:55:16 -0400 |
| commit | ad551119667aae6bb84716f4625484823a7ea652 (patch) | |
| tree | 6b7d402ffcde9eafc5b93c3b85684f6929340d61 /doc/git-annex.mdwn | |
| parent | c006d97f0cb4a5b4f19d9faca9205a5081d54c67 (diff) | |
more warnings about networked filesystems
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/git-annex.mdwn | 6 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/git-annex.mdwn b/doc/git-annex.mdwn index c28d8af6c..fca499a7e 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` |