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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