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Re: Apt and NFS?



On Tue, 26 Sep 2000, Ethan Benson wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 26, 2000 at 02:52:26AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
> > oh did you check to make sure you have lockd running on both machines?  
> 
> i just remembered something else i had to do to get locking working,
> it seems that sometimes you have to compile in NFSD support into the
> CLIENT kernel as well as the server kernel.  there is also LOCKD
> support in the kernel which is not accessable in the kenrel
> configuration menus, on one of my x86 boxes its fine without NFSD
> compiled in, but on my powerpc i have to have NFSD compiled in for
> lockd to work, otherwise lockd just dies with `Function Not Implemented'

I'd like to point people with NFS lock problems to nfs.sourceforge.net.
Stock 2.2.17 and older kernels have quite a broken NFS implementation.

I don't know if the debian official kernel packages have this patch
built-in, though.

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  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
  Henrique Holschuh

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