Re: NFS under 2.2.12

Robert K. Nelson (rnelson@airflowsciences.com)
Tue, 31 Aug 1999 17:14:35 -0400


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>
> 2.2.12 itself seems to be rock solid as far as the 2.2.12 knfsd goes.
> I've also run the patches and tools from HJ Lu with no problems. The only
> reason they don't go in is the tool change.

Have you run this in conjunction with other NFS implementations? I have
HP-UX 10.20 and Hummingbird's
Maestro NFS for NT running. The 2.2.12 knfsd (no patches) seems to have a
problem clearing the client after a
downed Linux system comes back up. On the both the Linux box and the HP
machines this is reported as a
"stale NFS file handle" which will not umount. On the Linux side you can
clear this by explicitly remounting the file
system. On the HP side I have found no way to resolve this short of
rebooting the machine. This is what drove
me to applying the knfsd updates - which started the other problems.

Of course, the problem could be the HP implementation (not having the source
I can't check :-( ) but it only
seems to happen with Linux NFS servers.

>> 1. The lockd process won't start - when I run rpc.lockd I get the
>> message "lockdsvc: invalid argument"

>You have mismatched kernel/tools I think

Very possible (I have made a mistake on occasion). Thoughts on how to
resolve this?

Bob

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