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SubjectRe: NFS Locking in 2.3
On Monday February 14, compwiz@bigfoot.com wrote:
> Is there NFS file locking support in the current 2.3 kernel? After
> downloading all the latest NFS utilities, with 2.3.44, when loading
> rpc.lockd, I get: lockdsvc: Invalid argument
> I'm assuming that this is not an isolated case. If there is no support in
> the current kernel, are there any plans for it?
>

2.3 kernels do support locking (for NFSv2, not NFSv3 yet).

They, like most other kernels, (2.2.14, 2.2.15 being the exceptions,
2.2.16 will hopefully revert) start lockd automatically, so running
rpc.lockd is not necessary (though it doesn't actually hurt).

NeilBrown

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