From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 12 4:27:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rasp.eng.cam.ac.uk (rasp.eng.cam.ac.uk [129.169.8.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8DFFC37B5ED for ; Fri, 12 May 2000 04:27:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jpmg@eng.cam.ac.uk) Received: from tigger.eng.cam.ac.uk (via root@tigger.eng.cam.ac.uk [129.169.80.71]) by rasp.eng.cam.ac.uk with ESMTP id MAA05436 for ; Fri, 12 May 2000 12:27:23 +0100 (BST) Received: from tulip.eng.cam.ac.uk (via mailuser@tulip [129.169.81.11]) by tigger.eng.cam.ac.uk with ESMTP id MAA10123 for ; Fri, 12 May 2000 12:27:15 +0100 (BST) From: jpmg@eng.cam.ac.uk Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 12:27:14 +0100 (BST) Message-Id: <200005121127.12482@tulip.eng.cam.ac.uk> Received: (via jpmg@localhost) by tulip.eng.cam.ac.uk id MAA12482 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 12 May 2000 12:27:14 +0100 (BST) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: rpc.lockd / nfs versions Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On FreeBSD 4.0-RELEASE, rpc.lockd exists, has a man page that suggests it works, but has a dire warning in /etc/defaults/rc.conf that it doesn't. Never one to believe dire warnings, I've tried it. It runs, appears to try to do things, but fails to work. The test I've been using is the procmail file locking test suite, which makes some fairly sensible attempts to see if a particular locking strategy will work. I have a suspicion that the client I was testing from (solaris 2.5.1) is making a decision to insist on doing 'version==4' locking attempts _because_ it's noticed that it can do 'version==3' nfs accesses. I've come to this conclusion since snooping the network indicates that the client keeps doing version==4 requests and ignoring the "can't do that, I'm prepared to accept versions between 1 and 3" reply, whereas it's quite happy doing locking against a SunOS4 machine where only rpc versions 1-3 of the lock manager are available, but only nfs v2 is being provided. Is anyone looking at this at the moment? -patrick. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message