From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 27 18:50:22 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1983F1065672; Sat, 27 Mar 2010 18:50:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from asmtpout024.mac.com (asmtpout024.mac.com [17.148.16.99]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0396C8FC1D; Sat, 27 Mar 2010 18:50:21 +0000 (UTC) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Received: from [17.151.93.190] by asmtp024.mac.com (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.3-8.01 (built Dec 16 2008; 32bit)) with ESMTPSA id <0KZY00LJ6EZU5S00@asmtp024.mac.com>; Sat, 27 Mar 2010 11:50:21 -0700 (PDT) X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=notspam policy=default score=0 spamscore=0 ipscore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx engine=5.0.0-0908210000 definitions=main-1003270119 From: Chuck Swiger In-reply-to: <4BAC879A.2040301@zirakzigil.org> Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2010 11:50:17 -0700 Message-id: <4931283F-5B5B-4368-BB40-20B5FEBF4E17@mac.com> References: <4BAC879A.2040301@zirakzigil.org> To: Giulio Ferro X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1078) Cc: "freebsd-net@freebsd.org" , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NFS lockd problem X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2010 18:50:22 -0000 On Mar 26, 2010, at 3:08 AM, Giulio Ferro wrote: > Outset: > 1 NFS server (with lockd) > 2 NFS client (with lockd) > > The clients serve several jails with apache, whose data (www) resides on the server If you need file locking to work reliably, you pretty much have to give up on using NFS + rpc.lockd and run against a local UFS filesystem. Regards, -- -Chuck