6.1 and NFS

[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 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.lockd remains unreliable; avoid using it if practical.
>>
>> This is becoming a show stopper for us moving forward with FreeBSD
>> and may require us moving to a different OS (Linux or Solaris, each
>> with significant downsides). Do you have a pointer on where I can
>> track the issue so as to make a decision at some point in the future?
>
> 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.

Do you have an estimate of what kind of time is necessary to solve  
the problem?

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Michael Conlen