Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 26 Jan 2003 16:40:15 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 26 Jan 2003 16:40:14 -0500 Received: from pat.uio.no ([129.240.130.16]:52360 "EHLO pat.uio.no") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 26 Jan 2003 16:40:13 -0500 To: Christian Reis Cc: Neil Brown , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, NFS@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [NFS] Re: NFS client locking hangs for period References: <20030124184951.A23608@blackjesus.async.com.br> <15922.2657.267195.355147@notabene.cse.unsw.edu.au> <20030126140200.A25438@blackjesus.async.com.br> From: Trond Myklebust Date: 26 Jan 2003 22:49:14 +0100 In-Reply-To: <20030126140200.A25438@blackjesus.async.com.br> Message-ID: Lines: 21 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.4 (Honest Recruiter) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org >>>>> " " == Christian Reis writes: > I wonder why you can't do locking on NFS root (if it's a > current limitation of if it doesn't make sense). locking supposes that you are already running a statd daemon, which you clearly cannot be doing on an nfsroot system. If you need locking on a root partition, then you'll need to set up an initrd from which to start all the necessary daemons... BTW: Did I understand you and Neil correctly when you appeared to say that you were sharing the *same* root partition between several clients? If so, then that could easily explain your problem: a directory like /var/lib/nfs simply cannot be shared among several different machines. Read the 'statd' manpage, and I'm sure you will understand why. Cheers, Trond - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/