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Date:      Mon, 1 Jul 2013 17:00:50 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Rick Macklem <rmacklem@uoguelph.ca>
To:        Lars Eggert <lars@netapp.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: NFSv4 console messages (locks lost etc.)
Message-ID:  <2093075778.668336.1372712450957.JavaMail.root@uoguelph.ca>
In-Reply-To: <40542593-2411-421E-BE65-FB62E9D55703@netapp.com>

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Lars Eggert wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Jun 29, 2013, at 2:45, Rick Macklem <rmacklem@uoguelph.ca> wrote:
> > Btw, a NFSv4 mounted root fs will not work correctly, because the
> > client
> > name is generated from the host uuid, which isn't set when the root
> > fs
> > is mounted. I'm not sure what the client would use as its client
> > name,
> > but this will definitely break things badly if multiple clients use
> > the
> > same name. (And this might explain the lease expiry problem.)
> 
> ah, now that explains a lot. Since these are diskless clients, I had
> set hostid_enable="NO" in order to turn off the "/etc/rc: WARNING:
> could not store hostuuid in /etc/hostid" warning.
> 
> Turning this back on seems to have fixed the issue.
> 
> (It might make sense to have the NFSv4 code throw a warning when the
> hostid isn't set, if it depends on it?)
> 
Yes, good suggestion. I wasn't aware there was a "hostid_enable=NO" option.

Good to hear it is resolved, rick

> Thanks,
> Lars
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