Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2004 17:23:08 -0600 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NFS and file-locking Message-ID: <20040309232308.GI95503@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <20040309220309.GA74477@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20040309215001.GA28538@axion01.tphys.physik.uni-tuebingen.de> <20040309220309.GA74477@xor.obsecurity.org>
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In the last episode (Mar 09), Kris Kennaway said: > On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 10:50:01PM +0100, Dominik Epple wrote: > > can anyone please give me some short information (or a pointer to > > it) about the status of file locking over NFS with FreeBSD clients > > and different servers (e.g. FreeBSD, OpenBSD, linux). > > FreeBSD 5 has working NFS locking (rpc.lockd) support. Linux is > broken and will not interoperate with FreeBSD unless you apply the > patch in PR kern/56461. FWIW, the breakage is one-way. A Linux client can lock files on a FreeBSD server, but a Linux server cannot handle a FreeBSD client's lock request. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com
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