I'm currently using kernel 2.2.10 with the kernel-space NFS server and
all the NFS patches from /usr/doc/knfs. However, I'm still having
problems with NFS locking. Recently, WindowMaker on NFS client
machines started segfaulting because it was apparently trying to lock
some files over NFS. Mutt also has problems because it tries to use
fcntl over NFS. Does anyone know if kernel 2.2.12 fixes all these
things? It would be very VERY nice if the kernel could somehow
intercept all these incompatible fcntl calls and change them into
flock or something that would work over NFS. Has anyone been able to
find any solutions other than local symlinks or specifying "nolock" in
/etc/fstab? Locking is there for a reason, I'd really like to get it
to work as opposed to just ignoring the problem with nolock.
Thanks for any suggestions,
Max
--
The hopeful depend on a world without end
Whatever the hopeless may say
Neil Peart, 1985
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