NFS Locking Issue

[Chris H.]

Quoting Michel Talon <talon at lpthe.jussieu.fr>:

>> I guess I'm still just a bit stunned that a bug this obvious not only
>> found it's way into the STABLE branch, but is still there.  Maybe it's
>> not as obvious as I think, or not many folks are using it?  All I know
>> for sure here is that if I had upgraded to 6.1 my network would have
>> been crippled.
>
> Strange, since i upgraded to FreeBSD-6.1 and the NFS server to Fedora Core 5,
> my machine, NFS client is happy, and lockd works. It is first time since
> years i have no problem. It certainly did not work with FreeBSD-5 and i still
> have a machine with FreeBSD-6.0 which does not work properly 
> (frequently loses
> the NFS mount, but it gets remounted some times later by amd). Anyways i have
> exactly 0 problem with the 6.1 machine. I could extend that to say that
> everything works very well on that machine, nothing is slow, including disk
> access. This has not always been the case. Stability wise, i have not 
> seen any
> panic, hang or whatever since i have compiled a kernel adapted to my 
> hardware.
> I got a panic with the generic kernel soon after installation, but now
> machine is totally stable.

So it would appear that you cured the NFS problems inherent with FBSD-6
by replacing FBSD with Fedora Linux. Nice to know that NFSd works in Linux.
But won't help those on the FBSD list fix their FBSD-6 boxen. :/

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