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Date:      Sat, 14 Sep 2002 22:04:22 -0700 (PDT)
From:      "Andrew P. Lentvorski" <bsder@mail.allcaps.org>
To:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Cc:        Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>, <current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: NFS lock failure (was Re: FreeBSD 5.0 as a desktop 'failure' report)
Message-ID:  <20020914215026.A91907-100000@mail.allcaps.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020915030002.GA2484@xor.obsecurity.org>

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On Sat, 14 Sep 2002, Kris Kennaway wrote:

> ...  When the machine
> rebooted (with a newer kernel, hmm) it is now completing the locking
> tests (note the warnings, though).  My locking problems with the linux
> server continue though.

Cool!  I'm glad that FreeBSD -current passes the new Connectathon 2002
locking suites (especially when run by somebody other than me :-) ).

Your linux problems are not surprising.  The linux NFS server did not
support partial file locking last time I checked.  It also did not support
certain combinations of rpc binding(portmapper/rpcbind), NFS version, and
NFS lock manager verion.  However, NFS on linux is Somebody Else's
Problem(tm).

The lack of partial file locking was the reason that I rewrote a whole lot
of rpc.lockd on -current.  Even after this rewrite, rpc.lockd still has
some quirks on -current which will require some significant kernel
digging to rectify.  However, some of this should get easier given the
significant efforts which have gone into the filesystem code in -current.

-a




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