Re: NFS error w/ 2.1.131 (locking)

Jamie Lokier (lkd@tantalophile.demon.co.uk)
Sun, 13 Dec 1998 16:31:03 +0000

On Sat, Dec 12, 1998 at 10:33:26AM -0500, Steven N. Hirsch wrote:
> NFS locking is hopelessly broken unless you have HJ Liu's patches
> installed and are using the system daemons from his knfsd distribution.
> The kernel portions are now in Alan Cox's 2.1.131-acX patches (X currently
> at 9).

Explain? NFS client locking is ok with stock 2.1.131 except for some
occasional cache coherency glitchets. Certainly, locking does actually
work.

You do need to run statd from the knfsd distribution though. And the
portmapper, before everything else.

-- Jamie

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