Re: [coLinux-users] A strange problem about using cofs in emacs

[netawater <net...@ya...>]

Henry Nestler <Henry.Ne@Arcor.de> writes:

> netawater wrote:
>> I mount a windows partion as cofs in colinux with defaults option.
>> It works well when I use nano to edit a file, however I try to use
>> emacs to edit it and save it, it will report a error:
>> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "IO error writing 
>> /mnt/i/backup/history/backup.sh: Input/output error")
>>   write-region(1 109 "/mnt/i/backup/history/backup.sh" nil t 
>> "/mnt/i/backup/history/backup.sh")
>>   basic-save-buffer-2()
>>   basic-save-buffer-1()
>>   basic-save-buffer()
>>   save-buffer(1)
>>   call-interactively(save-buffer)
>> 
>> What is this problem? Thanks!
>
> I think it's a problem from asynchronious implementation. Cofs based opn
> fuse. Check for problems with "emacs + fuse"
>
> What coLinux version?
>
> Check the kernel logs ("dmesg"). Any errors on cofs?
>
> In coLinux 0.7.3 and 0.8.0 exist the option "nocache".
> Try this, for example:
>   mount -t cofs cofs0 -o nocache /mnt/windows
>
> -- 
> Henry N.
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Thank you! I have updated colinux to 0.7.3 and it is OK now!
I haven't tried to use nocache option.