NFS == lock && reboot

[Kris Kennaway]

On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 09:09:39AM -0400, Thomas David Rivers wrote:
> Hi Chris,
> 
>  Well - the NFS server is 4.5-RELEASE - a rather old box.
> 
>  Everything worked fine when the shop was all 4.x boxes, but as soon
>  as we put in a 5.x or 6.x box - the NFS clients on those (5.x/6.x) boxes
>  locked up hard if rpc.lockd was running on the 4.5-RELEASE server.
> 
>  On 4.x, rpc.lockd doesn't start automatically - since, as I understand 
>  it, rpc.lockd had "issues" in that timeframe.  But, one of the developers
>  here turned it on hoping to get real locking for /var/mail.
> 
>  So - I thought my problem might simply be the old rpc.lockd
>  implementation in 4.x, and I didn't worry about it (since 4.x is
>  out-of-service anyway.)
> 
>  However, this sounded _so_ familiar - I thought I would pop-up
>  and mumble something like a "me too."
> 
>  rpc.statd isn't running on the 4.5 NFS server.

AFAICR rpc.lockd was fine in 4.x, it just wasn't a real rpc.lockd.

The issues are with the rewrite that came in 5.x to add real locking,
which sort of works except when it doesn't.

Kris
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