From owner-freebsd-current Thu Dec 5 20:59:44 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4426437B401 for ; Thu, 5 Dec 2002 20:59:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from brainlink.com (mail.brainlink.com [66.228.0.129]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F5B843EBE for ; Thu, 5 Dec 2002 20:59:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from anthonyv@brainlink.com) Received: from [24.189.7.159] (HELO brainlink.com) by brainlink.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 3.5.3) with SMTP id 17346764 for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Fri, 06 Dec 2002 00:09:37 -0500 Message-ID: <3DF02EB3.4000303@brainlink.com> Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2002 23:59:31 -0500 From: Anthony Volodkin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021021 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Status of file locking over NFS Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, Recently, I've been playing with booting a 5.0-CURRENT FreeBSD-sparc64 machine via tftp/nfsroot. The problem that I encountered was that the machine was unable to lock files in it's / nfs-mounted partition, and thus I would miss a large amount of functionality (such as having users :)) divine# passwd Changing local password for root New Password: Retype New Password: passwd: could not lock the passwd file: : Operation not supported My NFS server is a 4.7-RELEASE machine running the following daemons in order to perform NFS: portmap nfsd -u -t -n 4 mountd -r rpc.statd rpc.lockd According to release notes for 4.7, server-side NFS locking is supposed to be functional. 5.0-DP2's release notes say that client-side as well as server-side locking is functional. So in theory, I should not be having the above issues. Does anyone have a working setup with NFS locking tested and working? Can anyone offer any advice on this? Sincerely, Anthony Volodkin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message