Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 11:56:24 -0500 (EST) From: Steve Hovey <shovey@buffnet.net> To: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.csd.uu.se> Cc: Grigory Kljuchnikov <grn@ispras.ru>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: errno (46) - for FreeBSD 4.0 NFS server Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10003221155240.5966-100000@buffnet11.buffnet.net> In-Reply-To: <20000322175118.A901@student.csd.uu.se>
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I believe the lockd daemon is used in environments where applications at the client end will not work unless they can make a lock call and get a positive result.. so in environments where you feel its fairly safe to fake a lock to a client app, in order to get the app working at all, that you would use this. (At least I think that used to be the reason for it) On Wed, 22 Mar 2000, Erik Trulsson wrote: > On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 03:46:12PM +0300, Grigory Kljuchnikov wrote: > > Thank you, Erik! > > > > I find rpc.lockd and start it manually. My test with NFS locking works right. > > But it don't start on boot by default if I enable NFS server in > > /stand/sysinstall and there is the comment in /etc/default/rc.conf > > for rpc_lockd_enable: > > > > rpc_lockd_enable="NO" # Run NFS rpc.lockd (*broken!*) if nfs_server. > > > > Does the comment "(*broken!*)" mean that rpc.lockd doesn't work properly? > > > > To be honest I don't know. I haven't used it myself but only read the > manpages. (Since I only use NFS between FreeBSD boxes and they don't support > client-side locking it seems pointless to have it on the server.) > > That comment does seem to imply that something is broken but then the > manpage really should say something about that. (This might of course > indicate that the manpage isn't in sync with reality.) > > Somebody who knows what is up with rpc.lockd is welcome to comment. > > > > > > On Wed, 22 Mar 2000, Erik Trulsson wrote: > > > > > On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 12:04:55PM +0300, Grigory Kljuchnikov wrote: > > > > Thierry, thank you for the information, > > > > but it's very bad that there isn't NFS locking in FreeBSD. > > > > I'm afraid I need to move my FreeBSD NFS server to Solaris > > > > for x86. > > > > > > > > I don't understand why NFS locking isn't in FreeBSD. > > > > Is it difficult in the implementation or are there another > > > > global problems in the kernel (or in the native filesystem)? > > > > > > > > Who know when the NFS locking is planed to release in FreeBSD? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Actually I think that server side locking *is* implemented but client side > > > locking isn't. > > > 'man 8 rpc.lockd' for more information. > > > (And 'man 5 rc.conf' for information on how to start it at bootup. > > > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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