[Dovecot] Re: Bug? 1.0.0-test28 NFS locking problems

[Tim Southerwood]

On Fri, 23 Jul 2004 01:40:20 +0200
Matthias Andree <matthias.andree at gmx.de> wrote:

> Tim Southerwood <ts at doc.ic.ac.uk> writes:
> 
> > Don't  know why yet - I assume it's unimplemented in the Solaris NFS
> > dialect?
> 
> I don't think so. I've run your program in these combinations, with
> two different hosts for each run:
> 
> Solaris 2.8 NFS client <-> Solaris 2.8 NFS server
>   Linux 2.4 NFS client <-> Solaris 2.8 NFS server
> Solaris 2.8 NFS client <-> Linux 2.4 NFS server.
> 
> In all cases, the screen output was:
> 
> Locked with F_SETLKW
> Sleeping - try to lock same file from second process
> [half a minute paused]
> File closed
> 
> Is there anything special WRT share options in your /etc/dfs/dfstab?

Now that's very interesting. I shall examine this in more detail. All
our Solaris servers have the same setup and I didn't do it - so my
initial thought was "Solaris must be weird"!

OK - thanks for the comparative test - I shall look into this.

Cheers

Tim

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Tim J Southerwood
Senior Programmer