Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2004 17:19:42 -0500 (EST) From: "Jason M. Leonard" <fuzz@ldc.upenn.edu> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NFS and file-locking Message-ID: <20040309170935.Y78249@lorax.ldc.upenn.edu> In-Reply-To: <20040309220309.GA74477@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20040309215001.GA28538@axion01.tphys.physik.uni-tuebingen.de> <20040309220309.GA74477@xor.obsecurity.org>
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On Tue, 9 Mar 2004, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 10:50:01PM +0100, Dominik Epple wrote: > > Hi, > > > > can anyone please give me some short information (or a pointer to it) > > about the status of file locking over NFS with FreeBSD clients and > > different servers (e.g. FreeBSD, OpenBSD, linux). > > FreeBSD 5 has working NFS locking (rpc.lockd) support. Linux is > broken and will not interoperate with FreeBSD unless you apply the > patch in PR kern/56461. rpc.lockd support is not entirely stable; see PR bin/61718. I am always able to force the described problem to happen between two 5.2.x machines by using the file locking test from the /usr/ports/mail/procmail installation. When it asks for additional locations to test file locking, give it a remote NFS destination and watch things break. :Fuzz
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