rpc.lockd stalls

[Tom Ierna]

On Sep 7, 2006, at 1:40 PM, Kris Kennaway wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 01:34:08PM -0400, Tom Ierna wrote:
>>
>> Sporadically, there appear to be stalls on some locks with rpc.lockd.
>
> rpc.lockd is unreliable in all versions of FreeBSD (although it may be
> worse in 5.x), see the mailing list archives for extensive discussion
> of this.  Try turning it off and using mount_nfs -L instead to fake
> the lock traffic (See the manpage).

Kris,

Is there a way to note -L via fstab? Since these machines are PXE  
booted, unmounting and re-mounting with -L will be problematic, and  
I'd like them to inherit this property at reboot.

Thanks,
-Tom

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