>From: Daniel Kasak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Mar 6, 2007 6:03 PM >To: [email protected], [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: [users] Problem accessing files on NFS mounted volume > >Henk de Leeuw wrote: > >> When I access files from within OpenOffice that are mounted on an >> NFS-mounted volume, I run into problems. >> Opening an existing file is terribly slow, and the resulting window >> has (read-only) at the top. >> Saving a file ends with a file that is 0 bytes in size, and an error >> message that the file could not be saved. >> When I open or save files from other programs (Firefox) or the command >> line on the NFS volume, I have no problems. >> Reading and writing local files from OpenOffice is also OK. >> Both NFS server and client run Linux. > >From what I gather at >http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=36634 nfs is >unsupported by OOo :( Wrong. It is and has been supported on the Mac. See issue 54586, which I just re-opened as it was also held by the same issue on the Mac OS X platform. I suggested looking at the code to see if it applies to other UNIXes and Linux. Disabling SAL_FILE_LOCKING is unsuitable in a multi-user environment and can lead to very interesting results. >The above bug was closed as a 'duplicate' bug ages ago, even though IMHO >it was NOT a duplicate, and there were many users complaining that OOo >still couldn't access files on NFS shares. What can I say? Don't use >NFS. OOo only supports standards like smb, so set up a Samba server and >get with the program! What! No way will I leave my files open to that system and its vulnerabilities. SMB is very unsecure. I suggest that NFS support be fixed. > >> Are there any tests I could run to see where it goes wrong? > >The above bug page has some tests and recommendations. > >> Trace the system calls of OpenOffice with a program like strace? > >If you like.
You may be spending a lot of time troubleshooting the wrong problem. In the above mentioned issue there is a suggested fix by disabling file locking. However, this will leave your files open to multiple write copies and possible unrecoverable corruption (I suggest making copies of valuable files and backing them up often.) BTW, this should be fixed on the Mac OS X platform. James McKenzie --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
