RE: strange vim startup/loading error

["Marc Wiatrowski" <wia iglass net>]

> On Fri, 2006-04-21 at 16:45 -0400, Marc Wiatrowski wrote:
> 
> > There seems to be size limit, maybe number of lines.. characters
> > bytes, not sure in reference to the swap file creation?  If 
> I generate 
> > a test file with on the RHEL 4 U3 box with vim 6.3.82 (RH 
> 6.3.046-0.40E.7)
> > 
> > perl -e 'for (my $i=0; $i <= 3509; $i++) { print "This is 
> just one line of text.\n" }' >
> > test.txt
> > 
> > and then vim test.txt
> > 
> > I get:
> > 
> > E295: Read error in swap file
> > E316: ml_get: cannot find line 1
> > Hit ENTER or type command to continue
> > 
> > Can anyone else reproduce this?
> 
> No, I'm running Update 2, but vim-common is the same version you list.
> I created your test.txt file and I have no problems opening it.
> 

Ok I've narrowed it down some more.  The file is in an nfs mounted directory
when I get the error.  If I move it to a local disk, no error.  Move it back
and the error comes back.  

If I mount with nfsvers=2, no error, mount with nfsvers=3 and I get the error.  
noacl, nolock, tcp, udp... didn't seem to make a difference. I also disable 
SELinux which made no difference.  The NFS server is running RHEL 3 U5

thanks,
marc