Re: rpc.lockd

[Matthias Scheler <tron%zhadum.org.uk@localhost>]

On 7 Mar 2011, at 19:31, Chuck Swiger wrote:

> On Mar 7, 2011, at 10:43 AM, Patrick Welche wrote:
> [ ... ]
>> I suppose avoiding locks using the nolock option may avoid the issues,
>> but I wonder how the duplicate locks form in the first place - presumably
>> those messages are correct?
> 
> NFS locking (ie, rpc.lockd) is infamous for being buggy.

Implementations of it, not the protocol itself. FreeBSD made a lot of NFS 
improvements sponsored by Isilon which include an in-kernel NFS locking daemon. 
It would be nice to port those changes to NetBSD.

        Kind regards

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