On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 11:50:17AM -0700, Chuck Swiger wrote: > On Mar 26, 2010, at 3:08 AM, Giulio Ferro wrote: > > Outset: > > 1 NFS server (with lockd) > > 2 NFS client (with lockd) > > > > The clients serve several jails with apache, whose data (www) resides on > > the server > > If you need file locking to work reliably, you pretty much have to give up on > using NFS + rpc.lockd and run against a local UFS filesystem.
I thought fcntl(2) worked reliably/properly with NFS on FreeBSD? I remember reading somewhere how mixing locking types (fcntl vs. flock vs. lockf) causes major problems, but as long as the same locking method is used universally things should work...? -- | Jeremy Chadwick [email protected] | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB | _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
