NFS Locking Issue

[John Hay]

On Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 01:03:09AM +0200, Michel Talon wrote:
> > 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.

I only started to see the lockd problems when upgrading the server side
to FreeBSD 6.x and later. I had various FreeBSD clients, between 4.x
and 7-current and the lockd problem only showed up when upgrading the
server from 5.x to 6.x.

John
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John Hay -- John.Hay at meraka.csir.co.za / jhay at FreeBSD.org