Re: NFS Locking...

Trond Myklebust (trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no)
09 Nov 1999 14:07:07 +0100


>>>>> " " == Robert Dinse <nanook@eskimo.com> writes:

> It appears that remote locking isn't supported by the
> Linux nfsd and there
> is no lockd. Is there a fix for this problem? I know we could
> recompile some of the mailers to use a different locking method
> but I can't stop users from compiling things that do this and
> jamming up the machine with stuck processes that can't be
> killed. I don't see any flags in SunOS to disable locking.

If you need locking, you'll have to use knfsd. The ordinary nfs-server
won't support locking.

Cheers,
Trond

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