Re: 2.2.18 question (fh_lock_parent)

From: Michael J. Dikkema (mjd@moot.ca)
Date: Wed Dec 20 2000 - 10:44:27 EST


On Wed, 20 Dec 2000, Neil Brown wrote:

> On Tuesday December 19, mjd@moot.ca wrote:
> >
> > I've been getting tonnes of these since I installed 2.2.18. Is this a
> > problem? Should I even worry about this? If I don't need to worry about
> > it, is there a way to stop displaying this message?
> >
> > fh_lock_parent: mqueue/xfBAA14279 parent changed or child unhashed
> > fh_lock_parent: mqueue/xfBAA16413 parent changed or child unhashed
>
> You are running sendmail on an NFS client with /var/spool mounted off
> the NFS server which is giving these message - right?
>
> These messages tend to indicate a race between two different NFS
> requests that try to do something to the one file - probably unlink
> it, though possibly rename it.

That's what you'd think. All these machines have a drive mounted on
/var.

[root@www /root]# df
Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
10.0.0.10:/nfsroot 34020868 24061800 8230876 75% /
/dev/sda1 8744304 1473776 6826336 18% /var

I've checked to see if mtab was lying to me, and it's not.. I can unmount
and remount the drive on /var..

The system runs with one nfs server, and 4 children, all using nfs
root. They all mount /dev/sda1 on /var. Yet for some reason I get these
messages. I went from 2.2.16 -> 2.2.18 without changing anything but the
kernel. Has something changed? This doesn't look right to me at all.

,.;::
: Michael J. Dikkema
| Systems / Network Admin - Internet Solutions, Inc.
| http://www.moot.ca Work: (204) 982-1060
; mjd@moot.ca
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