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Date:      Thu, 06 Jul 2006 19:56:34 +0200
From:      "Ronald Klop" <ronald-freebsd8@klop.yi.org>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: NFS Locking Issue
Message-ID:  <op.tb934kbt8527sy@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <44AB0C96.3090400@samsco.org>
References:  <20060704212432.GA57426@lpthe.jussieu.fr> <44AB0C96.3090400@samsco.org>

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On Wed, 05 Jul 2006 02:49:26 +0200, Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> wrote:

> Michel Talon wrote:
>
>>> BTW, I noticed yesterday that that IPv6 support committ to rpc.lockd  
>>> was never backed out.  An immediate question for people experiencing  
>>> new rpc.lockd problems with 6.x should be whether or not backing out  
>>> that change helps.
>>   So it may be relevant to say that i have kernels without IPV6 support.
>> Recall that i have absolutely no problem with the client in FreeBSD-6.1.
>> Tomorrow i will test one of the 6.1 machines as a NFS server and the  
>> other as
>> a client, and will make you know if i see something.
>>  As to the problems you mention about NFS Linux, yes i have seen a lot  
>> since
>> years. But to my surprise FC5 seems to work well. By the way it is  
>> kernel
>> 2.6.16 so sufficiently recent for the problems to have been ironed out,
>> presumably.
>>
>
> 2.6.16 should be OK.  I've heard of problems with cookie and handle  
> sizes with it, but only under highly unusual circumstances.
>
> Scott

Just for the record.

I'm running a 6.1-STABLE client with a Debian 3.1 server with kernel  
2.6.12 and that works ok with nfs locking. Locking didn't work in the past  
(6.0-STABLE).

Ronald.

-- 
  Ronald Klop
  Amsterdam, The Netherlands



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