Re: PossibleNFS locking problem 2.2.0pre1-4

Miquel van Smoorenburg (miquels@cistron.nl)
6 Jan 1999 10:12:28 +0100


In article <cistron.19990105150301.A1026@parus.itea.ntnu.no>,
Jon K. Hellan <Jon.K.Hellan@item.ntnu.no> wrote:
>I recently upgraded to 2.2.0-pre4, and apparently have a problem nfs
>locking files on an nfs server running 2.0.36 (pre 14, actually).
>I am not sure whether this is a kernel bug or a configuration problem.

With a 2.2.0 kernel, the NFS client expects that the server is running
a "lockd" process. If it isn't you need to mount the NFS filesystems
on the client with the "nolock" option and it will behave just like 2.0

Mike.

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