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Date:      Thu, 25 Nov 2004 16:47:15 -0800
From:      Alfred Perlstein <alfred@freebsd.org>
To:        Bj?rn Gr?nvall <bg@sics.se>, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.org, lennox@cs.columbia.edu, kris@FreeBSD.org, dnelson@allantgroup.com
Subject:   Re: Linux compatible rpc.lockd
Message-ID:  <20041126004715.GD69608@elvis.mu.org>
In-Reply-To: <20041125215225.GF733@empiric.icir.org>
References:  <20041125201812.609e50f9@manian.sics.se> <20041125215225.GF733@empiric.icir.org>

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* Bruce M Simpson <bms@spc.org> [041125 13:53] wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 25, 2004 at 08:18:12PM +0100, Bj?rn Gr?nvall wrote:
> > I have made a patch to address PR kern/56461, in short the patch
> > provides two different options to be compatible with Linux lockd
> > implementations. It can also serve as a basis for a future more robust
> > rpc.lockd.
> 
> Thank you for this. I looked at this around 8 months ago but abandoned
> further work on it because the approach I was taking required that
> nfs be refactored to use the nmount() API, and because I am not currently
> using NFS. It looks as though the two options implemented here helps to
> address the problems I was having with making sure Linux servers got
> the right lock cookie response.
> 
> Have you tested this in production and does it work well? If so I believe
> it should be committed, but I'd defer to Alfred for further review.

It looks non0invasive enough to be safe.  Please see if you can 
get a test run and commit it.  I'm in the hospital and not able to
do stuff.

-- 
- Alfred Perlstein
- Research Engineering Development Inc.
- email: bright@mu.org cell: 408-480-4684



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