Re: Linux NFS client, NetBSD server, locking problems?

[Christoph Egger <Christoph_Egger%gmx.de@localhost>]

Matthias Scheler wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 11:41:01PM +0200, Teemu Rinta-aho wrote:
>> I did some more testing. Locking seems to work but the problem
>> is probably only in Firefox. It behaves really strangely when
>> the profile is on NFS.
> 
> Are you sure that is the cause? I use Linux desktop with an NFS mounted
> home directory at work. This setup doesn't cause any particular problems
> unless the NFS locking daemons on the Linux NFS server crash.
> 
> Similar I'm using Firefox under Mac OS X with a home directory mounted
> from a NetBSD NFS server without problems.

In case you have a mixed NFSv2 / NFSv3 environment you might want to
port this fix into NetBSD:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.os.openbsd.cvs/76982

Christoph