From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 9 14:51:24 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C89616A4CE for ; Tue, 9 Mar 2004 14:51:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from lorax.ldc.upenn.edu (lorax.ldc.upenn.edu [158.130.16.184]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F132C43D2D for ; Tue, 9 Mar 2004 14:51:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from fuzz@ldc.upenn.edu) Received: by lorax.ldc.upenn.edu (Postfix, from userid 32822) id 90D3C22860; Tue, 9 Mar 2004 17:51:23 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lorax.ldc.upenn.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 888742281C; Tue, 9 Mar 2004 17:51:23 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2004 17:51:23 -0500 (EST) From: "Jason M. Leonard" To: Kris Kennaway In-Reply-To: <20040309222400.GA75180@xor.obsecurity.org> Message-ID: <20040309174631.N78793@lorax.ldc.upenn.edu> References: <20040309215001.GA28538@axion01.tphys.physik.uni-tuebingen.de> <20040309170935.Y78249@lorax.ldc.upenn.edu> <20040309222400.GA75180@xor.obsecurity.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: Dominik Epple cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NFS and file-locking X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2004 22:51:24 -0000 On Tue, 9 Mar 2004, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 05:19:42PM -0500, Jason M. Leonard wrote: > > > > On Tue, 9 Mar 2004, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > > > > On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 10:50:01PM +0100, Dominik Epple wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > can anyone please give me some short information (or a pointer to it) > > > > about the status of file locking over NFS with FreeBSD clients and > > > > different servers (e.g. FreeBSD, OpenBSD, linux). > > > > > > FreeBSD 5 has working NFS locking (rpc.lockd) support. Linux is > > > broken and will not interoperate with FreeBSD unless you apply the > > > patch in PR kern/56461. > > > > rpc.lockd support is not entirely stable; see PR bin/61718. > > > > I am always able to force the described problem to happen between two > > 5.2.x machines by using the file locking test from the > > /usr/ports/mail/procmail installation. When it asks for additional > > locations to test file locking, give it a remote NFS destination and watch > > things break. > > Any reason this important test case is not listed in the PR? ;-) Oops, I assumed (d'oh!) that it was common knowledge. I also hadn't read the PR in a while; it looks like a patch was submitted a week ago that may solve the problem. :Fuzz