[lug] Has anyone ever seen this?

Evelyn Mitchell efm at tummy.com
Fri Mar 18 06:38:38 MST 2005


* On 2005-03-18 13:21 Dan Ferris <dan at usrsbin.com> wrote:
> At work all the Linux computers are using automount to mount and unmount 
> NFS filesystems.
> 
> One user is unable to write files over NFS using vim.
> 
> vim gives the following error:
> 
> "test" E667: Fsync failed
> Hit ENTER or type command to continue

There appears to be a patch, though if it will fix this, I do not know:
   http://distfiles.master.finkmirrors.net/6.3.010
The patch includes some comments which may be enlightening. It's definately
related to vim attempting to sync to the disk.

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