Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2000 17:45:21 +0100 From: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> To: cam <cam@bsdfr.org> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: rpc.lockd broken in FreeBSD NFS Message-ID: <20001108174521.A16846@student.uu.se> In-Reply-To: <200011081355.OAA99219@mailhost.esil.univ-mrs.fr>; from cam@bsdfr.org on Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 02:53:47PM %2B0100 References: <200011081355.OAA99219@mailhost.esil.univ-mrs.fr>
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On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 02:53:47PM +0100, cam wrote: > hi > > I have to use rpc.lockd on my NFS server (FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE) and I've notice that it is broken with this line in /etc/defaults/rc.conf: > > 113: rpc_lockd_enable="NO" # Run NFS rpc.lockd (*broken!*) if nfs_server. > > 1/ Why is it broken ? I've search in the archives but I've not found any good answers. You can't have looked that hard. This question did come up earlier this year on -questions and it wasn't difficult to find the answer searching through the list-archives. Anyway, the answer is that lockd is just a dummy implementation. When the client requests a lock rpc.lockd will just say "A lock? Sure, here you have one." without actually locking anything. The only reason for running this is when you have semi-broken clients (usually DOS/Windows based) that insist on getting a lock even though they don't really need it. Then lockd will make them work. > > 2/ Can I use it anyway ? Or this will hang my system ? > Yes, you can use it. No it won't hang your system. But it won't do you any good if you have clients that actually need locking to work. ( I seem to remember somebody saying that there was work in progress writing a fully functional lockd. Has anything materialized on that front? (A quick check doesn't show anything in the repository.)) -- <Insert your favourite quote here.> Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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