NFS lockd problem

[Ronald Klop]

On Sat, 27 Mar 2010 20:50:17 +0200, Chuck Swiger <cswiger at mac.com> wrote:

> On Mar 26, 2010, at 3:08 AM, Giulio Ferro wrote:
>> Outset:
>> 1 NFS server (with lockd)
>> 2 NFS client (with lockd)
>>
>> The clients serve several jails with apache, whose data (www) resides  
>> on the server
>
> If you need file locking to work reliably, you pretty much have to give  
> up on using NFS + rpc.lockd and run against a local UFS filesystem.

I don't have this experience. I use NFS locking between FreeBSD, Linux,  
NetApp and SUN stuff. Older versions of FreeBSD had some troubles, but  
more recent ones work very well.

Ronald.