From: mehta kiran <kiranmehta1981@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: statd for NFSv4 does not create file
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 06:30:19 -0700 (PDT)
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Hi Trond ,=20
     Lock recovery worked with nfsv3 even if
     nfs server fail over to some other system
     This was possible because sm directory was shared
     across systems.
     Will this work with nfsv4 though there are
     no files in sm directory.=20

thanks,
 kiran

--- Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
wrote:

> to den 14.07.2005 Klokka 05:55 (-0700) skreiv mehta
> kiran:
> > Hi ,=20
> >         I have observed the following.
> >         RHEL4 GA and U1=20
> >         client accesses filesystem exported
> >         by server using nfsv4 .
> >=20
> >         It takes lock  on a file.
> >         Other clients on "different" systems
> >         get NFSERR_DENIED and they retry to
> acquire
> >         lock.
> >=20
> >         When first client release lock , other
> client
> >         gets the lock.
> >         But when i see in /var/lib/nfs/statd/sm=20
> >         directory , i cannot see any file with
> >         name =3D server's name.
>=20
> An NFSv4 client has no use for statd. The NFSv4
> protocol has its own
> methods for tracking client and server reboots.
>=20
> Cheers,
>   Trond
>=20
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