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From:
Ted Bullock <tbullock@comlore.com>
Subject:
Re: vi struggling to save commit messages
To:
"Todd C. Miller" <Todd.Miller@sudo.ws>
Cc:
gameoftrees@openbsd.org
Date:
Wed, 8 Mar 2023 10:42:07 -0700

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On 2023-03-08 9:14 a.m., Todd C. Miller wrote:
> On Tue, 07 Mar 2023 19:41:05 -0700, Ted Bullock wrote:
> 
>> I'm getting this when I try to commit a file now that got has switched
>> to vi instead of ed. :P
>>
>> vi reports:
>> logmsg-vu6jOR: file modified more recently than this copy
>>
>> My got working directory is shared on an NFS mount since my old Sun
>> workstation is quite thin and doesn't have much of a hdd.
>>
>> I double checked the time on the NFS server, it's correct and consistent
>> with the workstation.
> 
> NFS v2 mounts only support usec time stamp, if you use NFS v3 the
> problem may go away.

I thought that nfs v3 was the default? It does say so for mount_nfs(3)

In my /etc/fstab I did just add a -3 to the options line and remounted
the nfs share, and didn't see a difference in behavior for what it's
worth. Maybe I'm missing something?