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Date:      Sun, 15 Sep 2002 00:12:33 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
To:        "Andrew P. Lentvorski" <bsder@mail.allcaps.org>
Cc:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: NFS lock failure (was Re: FreeBSD 5.0 as a desktop 'failure' report)
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0209150012070.86175-100000@beppo>
In-Reply-To: <20020914215026.A91907-100000@mail.allcaps.org>

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Huh- that's a good question. I have all of that stuff around and should
try it. Last I tried either connectathon or spec, FreeBSD panicd.


On Sat, 14 Sep 2002, Andrew P. Lentvorski wrote:

> On Sat, 14 Sep 2002, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> 
> > ...  When the machine
> > rebooted (with a newer kernel, hmm) it is now completing the locking
> > tests (note the warnings, though).  My locking problems with the linux
> > server continue though.
> 
> Cool!  I'm glad that FreeBSD -current passes the new Connectathon 2002
> locking suites (especially when run by somebody other than me :-) ).
> 
> Your linux problems are not surprising.  The linux NFS server did not
> support partial file locking last time I checked.  It also did not support
> certain combinations of rpc binding(portmapper/rpcbind), NFS version, and
> NFS lock manager verion.  However, NFS on linux is Somebody Else's
> Problem(tm).
> 
> The lack of partial file locking was the reason that I rewrote a whole lot
> of rpc.lockd on -current.  Even after this rewrite, rpc.lockd still has
> some quirks on -current which will require some significant kernel
> digging to rectify.  However, some of this should get easier given the
> significant efforts which have gone into the filesystem code in -current.
> 
> -a
> 
> 
> 
> 


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