Re: 6.1 and NFS

2006-10-04 Thread Francisco Reyes
Bill Moran writes: Have you tried contacting the Foundation? http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/ It's my understanding that they coordinate most of this money -> developers stuff ... I think I explored that route. It's been a month or so now.. but if memory serves me well that was not a viable

Re: 6.1 and NFS

2006-10-02 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Francisco Reyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Kris Kennaway writes: > > > There are a number of PRs I filed, but those aren't all of the > > problems. It will require fairly major work to fix - the best hope > > would be if someone was funded to work on it. > > A couple of months back t

Re: 6.1 and NFS

2006-10-02 Thread Francisco Reyes
Kris Kennaway writes: There are a number of PRs I filed, but those aren't all of the problems. It will require fairly major work to fix - the best hope would be if someone was funded to work on it. A couple of months back the place I work for had a number of issues with NFS. We tried to find

Re: 6.1 and NFS

2006-09-23 Thread pbdlists
On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 04:12:03PM -0700, Perry Hutchison wrote: > > File locking works reasonably well within a single "system" (defined > as a combination of hardware and software that all crashes together > :) I doubt anyone will ever get it to work all that well when the > locks must be share

Re: 6.1 and NFS

2006-09-23 Thread Robert Joosten
Hi, > That's interesting. Are you getting a "could not lock the passwd > file: EOPNOTSUPP" failure with rpc.lockd not enabled? Negative, I rebuild the kernel on one box today, commented out rpc.lockd="YES" in /etc/rc.conf and rebooted into single user mode and remounted / rw. I then ran ad

Re: 6.1 and NFS

2006-09-22 Thread Robert Joosten
Hi, > >I observed running a pxe client running fbsd 5.[45] being served by > >nfs-box running 5 (and 4 > >nowadays because of asr0 trouble due to geom) having disabled > >rpc.lockd > >the box doens't let me run adduser, but with rpc.lockd enabled it's > >fine > >with 'em. Is that strange or

Re: 6.1 and NFS

2006-09-22 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Sep 22, 2006, at 11:02 AM, Robert Joosten wrote: Hmmm, is there a way to run pxe-boxes without rpc.lockd and then still able to run adduser and so on ? Safely? No. But then, flock() doesn't work via NFS even if rpc.lockd is running, so you aren't any worse off. flock() .. hmm yeah, I di

Re: 6.1 and NFS

2006-09-22 Thread Robert Joosten
Hi, > >Hmmm, is there a way to run pxe-boxes without rpc.lockd and then still > >able to run adduser and so on ? > Safely? No. But then, flock() doesn't work via NFS even if > rpc.lockd is running, so you aren't any worse off. flock() .. hmm yeah, I discoverd trouble with sendmail as well, it

Re: 6.1 and NFS

2006-09-21 Thread Perry Hutchison
>> rpc.lockd remains unreliable; avoid using it if practical. statd and lockd have been problematic ever since Sun invented them a couple of decades ago, at least partly because what they are trying to do is fundamentally not computable. (There is no way to distinguish between the other side havi

Re: 6.1 and NFS

2006-09-21 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Sep 21, 2006, at 2:43 PM, Robert Joosten wrote: rpc.lockd remains unreliable; avoid using it if practical. Hmmm, is there a way to run pxe-boxes without rpc.lockd and then still able to run adduser and so on ? Safely? No. But then, flock() doesn't work via NFS even if rpc.lockd is runn

Re: 6.1 and NFS

2006-09-21 Thread Robert Joosten
Hi Kris, > > > rpc.lockd remains unreliable; avoid using it if practical. > > Hmmm, is there a way to run pxe-boxes without rpc.lockd and then still > > able to run adduser and so on ? > Use the nolockd option to mount_nfs, nolockd, aha. Okay, I'll look at that, thx. Regards, Robert __

Re: 6.1 and NFS

2006-09-21 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 11:43:16PM +0200, Robert Joosten wrote: > Hi, > > > rpc.lockd remains unreliable; avoid using it if practical. > > Hmmm, is there a way to run pxe-boxes without rpc.lockd and then still > able to run adduser and so on ? Use the nolockd option to mount_nfs, that's what I

Re: 6.1 and NFS

2006-09-21 Thread Robert Joosten
Hi, > rpc.lockd remains unreliable; avoid using it if practical. Hmmm, is there a way to run pxe-boxes without rpc.lockd and then still able to run adduser and so on ? Regards, Robert ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd

Re: 6.1 and NFS

2006-09-21 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Sep 21, 2006, at 11:42 AM, Michael Conlen wrote: On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 02:21:08PM -0400, Michael Conlen wrote: I recall that FreeBSD 6.1 had some NFS & lockd issues that were a show stopper at one time for me however I'm having trouble finding information on the current state of NFS. Anyone

Re: 6.1 and NFS

2006-09-21 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 02:57:32PM -0400, Michael Conlen wrote: > > On Sep 21, 2006, at 2:45 PM, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > >On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 02:42:44PM -0400, Michael Conlen wrote: > >> > >>On Sep 21, 2006, at 2:22 PM, Kris Kennaway wrote: > >> > >>>On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 02:21:08PM -0400,

Re: 6.1 and NFS

2006-09-21 Thread Michael Conlen
On Sep 21, 2006, at 2:45 PM, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 02:42:44PM -0400, Michael Conlen wrote: On Sep 21, 2006, at 2:22 PM, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 02:21:08PM -0400, Michael Conlen wrote: I recall that FreeBSD 6.1 had some NFS & lockd issues that wer

Re: 6.1 and NFS

2006-09-21 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 02:42:44PM -0400, Michael Conlen wrote: > > On Sep 21, 2006, at 2:22 PM, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > >On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 02:21:08PM -0400, Michael Conlen wrote: > >>I recall that FreeBSD 6.1 had some NFS & lockd issues that were a > >>show stopper at one time for me howe

Re: 6.1 and NFS

2006-09-21 Thread Michael Conlen
On Sep 21, 2006, at 2:22 PM, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 02:21:08PM -0400, Michael Conlen wrote: I recall that FreeBSD 6.1 had some NFS & lockd issues that were a show stopper at one time for me however I'm having trouble finding information on the current state of NFS. Anyone

Re: 6.1 and NFS

2006-09-21 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 02:21:08PM -0400, Michael Conlen wrote: > I recall that FreeBSD 6.1 had some NFS & lockd issues that were a > show stopper at one time for me however I'm having trouble finding > information on the current state of NFS. Anyone have a pointer to > information? rpc.lock