Re: Is NFS Locking Reliable?

2009-03-11 Thread perryh
Our NFS servers for user home directories are on FreeBSD (6.4), MacOSX (10.5), Linux (still 2.4 kernel) and Tru64-UNIX boxes; NFS clients are mostly Linux (2.6 kernel) and FreeBSD (6.4, 7.0, but w/o kernel lockd) systems. I have seen problems with NFS locking even in completely homogeneous

Is NFS Locking Reliable?

2009-03-10 Thread Konrad Heuer
I'd like to ask for your experiences with NFS locking in larger environments. Our experiences are not so satisfying. Our NFS servers for user home directories are on FreeBSD (6.4), MacOSX (10.5), Linux (still 2.4 kernel) and Tru64-UNIX boxes; NFS clients are mostly Linux (2.6 kernel) and

Re: Is NFS Locking Reliable?

2009-03-10 Thread Andrew Wright
On Tue, 10 Mar 2009, Konrad Heuer wrote: I'd like to ask for your experiences with NFS locking in larger environments. Our experiences are not so satisfying. Our NFS servers for user home This matches my historical experience, especially if you add in periodically wedged and ignored lock