Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2008 04:47:42 +0800 From: "Rong-en Fan" <grafan@gmail.com> To: "Bryan Alves" <bryanalves@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NFS locking problems with 7.0-RELEASE Message-ID: <6eb82e0812301247uaf5eb45v529765e29220fd80@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <92f477740812291739o7c0b840bsd1cce4375577c41f@mail.gmail.com> References: <92f477740812291739o7c0b840bsd1cce4375577c41f@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 9:39 AM, Bryan Alves <bryanalves@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm running a FreeBSD Server (7.0-RELEASE, latest patchlevel, problem has > existed on previous patchlevels). Running an NFS server, with statd and > lockd. Client is an Ubuntu 8.10 machine. Of note is that the FreeBSD > server (in a home environment) is also running PF and doing the packet > filtering for the house. > > When I export my home directory and mount it on my linux client, I run into > all sorts of problems with file locking. The biggest problem is the > inability to run firefox. When stracing an execution of firefox, execution > hangs when opening it's .parentlock file for F_GETLK. I also notice > messages in /var/log/messages on the client on occasion: > [...] > > I realize that the linux NFS client implementation isn't spectacular, but > the same ubuntu setup works when connected to a netapp, which leads me to > believe that the problem is with the freebsd nfs server implementation. > > If anyone can suggest some additional troubleshooting steps to provide some > more information, or propose some suggested solutions, it would be > appreciated. You may want to upgrade to latest RELENG_7 and use the rewrote lockd in kernel space (w/ NFS_LOCKD in your kernel configuration). Regards, Rong-En Fan
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