From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 30 13:15:36 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5492216A4D0 for ; Fri, 30 Jun 2006 13:15:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from grafan@gmail.com) Received: from py-out-1112.google.com (py-out-1112.google.com [64.233.166.181]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A44CF4447F for ; Thu, 29 Jun 2006 19:14:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from grafan@gmail.com) Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id t32so372444pyc for ; Thu, 29 Jun 2006 12:14:58 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=JX+pnWHXQeA4AyYakbTMzzWDWvWrsAQ8HjFhTPlZo9/5Jau8Emp0QkEi3lViEc9FsoXRpFChHuwzLwiccm2aE44t8OKDaif14YUVvuJKjSfZJG1j9hTX7/nIiF650Yq0k5C6Jga6B3X14raqhTIp9SnN9QStN0GayHMiqzAFgQM= Received: by 10.35.111.14 with SMTP id o14mr1670524pym; Thu, 29 Jun 2006 12:14:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.35.97.3 with HTTP; Thu, 29 Jun 2006 12:14:57 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <6eb82e0606291214s4faceaegb027c1951d0aa011@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 15:14:57 -0400 From: "Rong-en Fan" To: "Michael Collette" In-Reply-To: <44A42009.7050103@TestEquity.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <44A42009.7050103@TestEquity.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NFS Locking Issue X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 13:15:36 -0000 On 6/29/06, Michael Collette wrote: > This last week I had been working on a test network to test out 6.1 > prior to upgrading our production boxes from 5.4. That's when I ran > across the rpc.lockd issues that have been discussed earlier. > > Our production setup has diskless clients running KDE, which due to this > bug is now dead on 6.1. I also have my mail server delivering messages > to a file server via NFS. I even have servers booting diskless with NFS > provided file systems... all of which are dead on 6.1. > > The last discussion our bug updates I've seen on this issue were about 3 > months ago. This leaves me with a number of questions I hope can be > answered here on this list. > > Is NFS a big deal for most other users, or am I out here on the fringe > using it as much as I do? > > Is anyone working on a fix for this? If so, is there any kind of time > frame where this fix might be MFC'd to 6-STABLE? > > 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. Try 6.1-STABLE, especially make sure you have $FreeBSD: src/usr.sbin/rpc.lockd/kern.c,v 1.16.2.1 2006/06/02 01:20:58 rodrigc Exp $ for usr.sbin/rpc.lockd/kern.c, and see if this helps. Regards, Rong-En Fan