Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2008 00:09:00 -0500 From: "Bryan Alves" <bryanalves@gmail.com> To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NFS locking problems with 7.0-RELEASE Message-ID: <92f477740812302109n78d9f303y5c49b8ca6ab082c5@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <6eb82e0812301247uaf5eb45v529765e29220fd80@mail.gmail.com> References: <92f477740812291739o7c0b840bsd1cce4375577c41f@mail.gmail.com> <6eb82e0812301247uaf5eb45v529765e29220fd80@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 3:47 PM, Rong-en Fan <grafan@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 Where can I find more information about in kernel NFS_LOCKD? It doesn't seem to exist on google at all, and I'm hesistant to upgrade from RELEASE without doing due dilligence in terms of research. Is rpc.lockd_enable still required in rc.conf when using this? Do I need to do anything else besides update to RELENG_7 and installworld/installkernel with this new option?
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