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Date:      Sun, 28 Mar 2010 13:19:59 +0300
From:      "Ronald Klop" <ronald-freebsd8@klop.yi.org>
To:        "Giulio Ferro" <auryn@zirakzigil.org>, "Chuck Swiger" <cswiger@mac.com>
Cc:        "freebsd-net@freebsd.org" <freebsd-net@freebsd.org>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: NFS lockd problem
Message-ID:  <op.u99y3lgt8527sy@pinky>
In-Reply-To: <4931283F-5B5B-4368-BB40-20B5FEBF4E17@mac.com>
References:  <4BAC879A.2040301@zirakzigil.org> <4931283F-5B5B-4368-BB40-20B5FEBF4E17@mac.com>

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On Sat, 27 Mar 2010 20:50:17 +0200, Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> wrote:

> On Mar 26, 2010, at 3:08 AM, Giulio Ferro wrote:
>> Outset:
>> 1 NFS server (with lockd)
>> 2 NFS client (with lockd)
>>
>> The clients serve several jails with apache, whose data (www) resides  
>> on the server
>
> If you need file locking to work reliably, you pretty much have to give  
> up on using NFS + rpc.lockd and run against a local UFS filesystem.

I don't have this experience. I use NFS locking between FreeBSD, Linux,  
NetApp and SUN stuff. Older versions of FreeBSD had some troubles, but  
more recent ones work very well.

Ronald.



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