NFS Locking Issue

[Michael Collette]

This last week I had been working on a test network to test out 6.1 
prior to upgrading our production boxes from 5.4.  That's when I ran 
across the rpc.lockd issues that have been discussed earlier.

Our production setup has diskless clients running KDE, which due to this 
bug is now dead on 6.1.  I also have my mail server delivering messages 
to a file server via NFS.  I even have servers booting diskless with NFS 
provided file systems... all of which are dead on 6.1.

The last discussion our bug updates I've seen on this issue were about 3 
months ago.  This leaves me with a number of questions I hope can be 
answered here on this list.

Is NFS a big deal for most other users, or am I out here on the fringe 
using it as much as I do?

Is anyone working on a fix for this?  If so, is there any kind of time 
frame where this fix might be MFC'd to 6-STABLE?

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.

Later on,
-- 
Michael Collette
IT Manager
TestEquity LLC
Michael.Collette at TestEquity.com