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Cc: Greg Byshenk <gbyshenk@byshenk.net>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: NFS locking: lockf freezes (rpc.lockd problem?)
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>>> An alternative would be to update to RELENG_6 (or at least RELENG_6_1)
>>> and then try again.

So.  I have done this.  And I can't reproduce the problem.

# uname -a
FreeBSD venus.araneidae.co.uk 6.1-STABLE FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE #1: Mon Aug 28 
18:32:17 UTC 2006 
root@venus.araneidae.co.uk:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386

Hmm.  Hopefully this is a *good* thing, ie, the problem really has been 
fixed, rather than just going into hiding.

So, as far as I can tell, lockf works properly in this release.

Sorry to have generated so much traffic on this!