Re: Q: how to test that nfs lockd is working

2002-06-18 Thread Ehud Karni
On Tue, 18 Jun 2002 14:58:44 +0300 (IDT), Geoffrey S. Mendelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Nathan Fain wrote: > > > > How can i test and verify that the lock manager is working and doing > > it's job over NFS? > > You can't. There is no NFS locking in kernels > 2.4.0 (and maybe > earlier

Re: Q: how to test that nfs lockd is working

2002-06-18 Thread Ariel Biener
On Tue, 18 Jun 2002, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: > You can't. There is no NFS locking in kernels > 2.4.0 (and maybe > earlier). Huh ??? There is lockd, it's just user space not kernel based. It exists, it's needed and improves NFS reliability by a great deal. The mount command supports the lo

Re: Q: how to test that nfs lockd is working

2002-06-18 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
Nathan Fain wrote: > > How can i test and verify that the lock manager is working and doing > it's job over NFS? You can't. There is no NFS locking in kernels > 2.4.0 (and maybe earlier). NFS locking used to work, but it never worked well, and the designers of it could never come up with an

Q: how to test that nfs lockd is working

2002-06-18 Thread Nathan Fain
How can i test and verify that the lock manager is working and doing it's job over NFS? Having trouble running a certain program over NFS (only over nfs) and getting strange lock errors, and have my doubts that despite my impression that it *should* be running and working (ie, rpcinfo shows