Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2000 18:30:17 +0100 From: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> To: Brandon Williams <drift@sigmatel.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NFS file locking in 4.2-RELEASE Message-ID: <20001204183017.A2872@student.uu.se> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0012041052080.12365-100000@chaos.sigmatel.com>; from drift@sigmatel.com on Mon, Dec 04, 2000 at 11:13:59AM -0600 References: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0012041052080.12365-100000@chaos.sigmatel.com>
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On Mon, Dec 04, 2000 at 11:13:59AM -0600, Brandon Williams wrote: > Hi, > > I apologize if this has been discussed, but I searched the archives and > could not find any mention of it, at least specifically for 4.2. Yes, it has been discussed several times. Both on -questions and on -stable. Search harder next time. > > rpc.lockd does not appear to work when the freebsd box is acting as an nfs > fileserver and a solaris 7 client attempts to lock a file (specifically > with cadence, a CAD app.) > > I realize that in /etc/defaults/rc.conf rpc.lockd is commented as being > broken, but there is not mention of this in the man page, or what, if any, > functionality lockd currently has. It is just a dummy implementation that basically says "Sure, have a lock" whenever an application asks for a lock, but without doing any actual locking. The only reason for using it is if you have an application that insists on getting a lock without really needing it. > > Finding that this does not work is quite depressing to me, as I just > convinced my company to move from a linux 2.4 (yuck) nfs server that was > causing problems, guaranteeing that freebsd would do a much better > job. Unfortunately I'll never get the chance to prove this, as I had to > quickly fall back to the linux system early this morning since file > locking is essential to my users' applications. > -- <Insert your favourite quote here.> Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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