NFS Locking Issue

[Scott Long]

Michel Talon wrote:

>>BTW, I noticed yesterday that that IPv6 support committ to rpc.lockd was never 
>>backed out.  An immediate question for people experiencing new rpc.lockd 
>>problems with 6.x should be whether or not backing out that change helps.
> 
> 
> So it may be relevant to say that i have kernels without IPV6 support.
> Recall that i have absolutely no problem with the client in FreeBSD-6.1.
> Tomorrow i will test one of the 6.1 machines as a NFS server and the other as
> a client, and will make you know if i see something.
> 
> As to the problems you mention about NFS Linux, yes i have seen a lot since
> years. But to my surprise FC5 seems to work well. By the way it is kernel
> 2.6.16 so sufficiently recent for the problems to have been ironed out,
> presumably.
> 
> 
> 

2.6.16 should be OK.  I've heard of problems with cookie and handle 
sizes with it, but only under highly unusual circumstances.

Scott