Comment 3 for bug 108605

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Martin Pool (mbp) wrote : Re: [Bug 108605] Re: dirstate locks can fail on nfs

On 4/24/07, Markus F.X.J. Oberhumer <email address hidden> wrote:
> Thanks for the feedback - the missing rpc.lockd on the server seems
> indeed to be the cause of the problem (but I cannot fix that machine).
>
> As a workaround adding "nolock" to the NFS mount options seems to be
> enough to make "bzr update" work again, though I'm not sure about the
> implications of that.

It might cause trouble if you tried to update the working tree
simultaneously from two nfs clients, which may be unlikely.

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Martin