Re: Linux compatible rpc.lockd

From: Alfred Perlstein (alfred_at_freebsd.org)
Date: 11/26/04

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To: Bj?rn Gr?nvall <bg@sics.se>, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.org, lennox@cs.columbia.edu, kris@FreeBSD.org, dnelson@allantgroup.com

    * Bruce M Simpson <bms@spc.org> [041125 13:53] wrote:
    > On Thu, Nov 25, 2004 at 08:18:12PM +0100, Bj?rn Gr?nvall wrote:
    > > I have made a patch to address PR kern/56461, in short the patch
    > > provides two different options to be compatible with Linux lockd
    > > implementations. It can also serve as a basis for a future more robust
    > > rpc.lockd.
    >
    > Thank you for this. I looked at this around 8 months ago but abandoned
    > further work on it because the approach I was taking required that
    > nfs be refactored to use the nmount() API, and because I am not currently
    > using NFS. It looks as though the two options implemented here helps to
    > address the problems I was having with making sure Linux servers got
    > the right lock cookie response.
    >
    > Have you tested this in production and does it work well? If so I believe
    > it should be committed, but I'd defer to Alfred for further review.

    It looks non0invasive enough to be safe. Please see if you can
    get a test run and commit it. I'm in the hospital and not able to
    do stuff. 

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- Alfred Perlstein
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