Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2013 07:58:41 -0400 (EDT) From: Rick Macklem <rmacklem@uoguelph.ca> To: John Reynolds <johnjen@reynoldsnet.org> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SOLVED: Re: NFS locking between 8.3-STABLE (jan 2013) and 9.2-BETA2 -- Firefox SQLite locking issue Message-ID: <1897895443.7142339.1375963121233.JavaMail.root@uoguelph.ca> In-Reply-To: <52033444.9060703@reynoldsnet.org>
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John Reynolds wrote: > > About all you need to do is add a "V4: ..." line to your > > /etc/exports > > and then set nfsv4_server_enable="YES" in /etc/rc.conf and reboot. > > On the client mount, you need to add "nfsv4" as a mount option. > I had to enable the proper daemons and mount on the client from the > actual server mount point (previously in NFSv3 I could mount a > symbolic > link which pointed to the actual disk--now with NFSv4 I couldn't do > that, but it's OK) but it worked! > > After I got my home dir to mount under NFSv4 I went into Xorg and > fired > up Firefox (with a brand new profile just to be on the safe side) and > BOOM! Everything works that Firefox relies on SQLite for (bookmarks, > and > link history). Bookmark editor as well as the <- and -> arrows show > up > and work now as expected. > > I am running 8.4-STABLE as of Aug 6th on my server (it will be > upgraded > to 9.2-STABLE once I can find the time) and the client is 9.2-BETA2 > just > for the record. So it seems that 8.x and 9.x talk to each other just > fine. I have not noticed anything odd performancewise--just that when > I > "umount" the directory it seems to "think about it" for 10-15 seconds > before doing it. I don't know if that's just the "way it is" or if I > can > configure something more fine-tuned. > It is "just the way it is", I think. It has to close all outstanding opens (and return delegations, if they are enabled) during the umount. I'm a bit surprised it takes 10-15sec, but not that amazed.;-) Have fun with it, rick ps: I realized I forgot to mention enabling the nfsuserd daemon on both client and server in the last post. > However, I'm just happy--actually ecstatic--that it's working. That > was > my last missing link (no pun intended) to letting the "users" in the > house on this new machine as their new desktop. Can't have FF broken! > :) > > Thanks all for your responses and help. > > -jr > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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