From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 30 04:17:37 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91EA516A407 for ; Fri, 30 Jun 2006 04:17:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhay@meraka.csir.co.za) Received: from zibbi.meraka.csir.co.za (zibbi.meraka.csir.co.za [146.64.24.58]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1148F43D6A for ; Fri, 30 Jun 2006 04:17:35 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jhay@meraka.csir.co.za) Received: by zibbi.meraka.csir.co.za (Postfix, from userid 3973) id 4193933CB6; Fri, 30 Jun 2006 06:17:33 +0200 (SAST) Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 06:17:33 +0200 From: John Hay To: Michel Talon , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20060630041733.GA4941@zibbi.meraka.csir.co.za> References: <20060629230309.GA12773@lpthe.jussieu.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060629230309.GA12773@lpthe.jussieu.fr> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Cc: Subject: Re: NFS Locking Issue X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 04:17:37 -0000 On Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 01:03:09AM +0200, Michel Talon wrote: > > I guess I'm still just a bit stunned that a bug this obvious not only > > found it's way into the STABLE branch, but is still there. Maybe it's > > not as obvious as I think, or not many folks are using it? All I know > > for sure here is that if I had upgraded to 6.1 my network would have > > been crippled. > > Strange, since i upgraded to FreeBSD-6.1 and the NFS server to Fedora Core 5, > my machine, NFS client is happy, and lockd works. It is first time since > years i have no problem. It certainly did not work with FreeBSD-5 and i still > have a machine with FreeBSD-6.0 which does not work properly (frequently loses > the NFS mount, but it gets remounted some times later by amd). Anyways i have > exactly 0 problem with the 6.1 machine. I could extend that to say that > everything works very well on that machine, nothing is slow, including disk > access. This has not always been the case. Stability wise, i have not seen any > panic, hang or whatever since i have compiled a kernel adapted to my hardware. > I got a panic with the generic kernel soon after installation, but now > machine is totally stable. I only started to see the lockd problems when upgrading the server side to FreeBSD 6.x and later. I had various FreeBSD clients, between 4.x and 7-current and the lockd problem only showed up when upgrading the server from 5.x to 6.x. John -- John Hay -- John.Hay@meraka.csir.co.za / jhay@FreeBSD.org