File locking on sshfs file system, possible?

Fri Oct 25 10:24:37 UTC 2019

On Fri, Oct 25, 2019 at 10:42:28AM +0100, Chris Green wrote:
>mutt_dotlock is failing when I try and lock the file across the 
>sshfs file system:-

The last time I looked, sshfs's hard link support was insufficient for 
dotlocking.  I believe the hard link count is not increased, (in 
addition to creating a new inode number for the link).  Even if it were 
implemented, I personally wouldn't risk my mbox files over sshfs.

Mutt 1.11.0 added a hard link fix for Maildir over sshfs.  If you do try 
Maildir you'll want to either upgrade or disable hardlink support in the 
sshfs mount.

-- 
Kevin J. McCarthy
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