> On Wed, 5 Jul 2006, Kaushal Shriyan wrote: > [...] > > are some of your partitions mounted via nfs? if so, try using in your > local.cf: > lock_method nfssafe > > this should the default value if you didnt set "lock_method flock" which > is not nfs safe.
> i can reproduces the message, when i access a nfs mounted directory > using: > lsattr -d /nfs-mounted-directory > lsattr: Inappropriate ioctl for device > so investigate the nfs mounts on your system. hopefully they > exists, so we come closer to a solution :) didnt got an answer by Kaushal yet; so can anyone confirm this behavior of db files in a nfs mounted directory? regards, Matthias