:Has anyone had much success with NFS locking? (where would one
:go if they wanted to understand the details?)
:
:I've read that it's been fixed for some time, that I need to run
:rpc.statd and rpc.lockd (and in fact, mutt complains unless I run
:these) I'm assuming 'statd' locks the local file and lockd talks
:to statd when a remote wants a lock?
It isn't going to work. The locks will be honored locally but we
do not have a working lockd, and even FreeBSD which has spent a lot
of time trying to get a working lockd doesn't have one that is
reliable. NFS locking in general is not reliable and I would not
recommend that anyone try to do it.
Ultimately we will be able to support locking across DragonFly boxes
as part of our clustering work, but I really doubt we will ever have
reliable NFS locking across disparate operating systems.
-Matt
