[Dovecot] NFS lock tester

[Timo Sirainen]

On 15.11.2007, at 22.06, Ulrich Spoerlein wrote:

> On Thu, 15.11.2007 at 04:32:16 +0200, Timo Sirainen wrote:
>> Anyone who has NFS, could you test: http://dovecot.org/tmp/locktest.c
>>
>> 1. Compile: gcc locktest.c -o locktest -Wall -g
>> 2. Start in server 1: ./locktest temp1
>> 3. Start in server 2: ./locktest temp2
>> 4. Server 1 might log "unlink() failed" error after starting the  
>> second
>> locktest, ignore that.
>
> I'm not quite sure how this is all meant. What's the point in running
> this on two different NFS servers? Do you mean to run it on two  
> clients,
> inside the same NFS dir using the same 'temp' ressource?
>
> I ran it on a 6.2 FreeBSD Server and a 7.0 FreeBSD client. When using
> 'temp1' and 'temp2' as per your example, nothing really breaks.

Forget about this. It's a "bug" in FreeBSD: http://lists.freebsd.org/ 
pipermail/freebsd-current/2007-November/079976.html http:// 
lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2007-November/079996.html

I added a workaround to Dovecot though.
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