Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 6 Nov 2003 20:53:47 -0800 | From | Kris Kennaway <> | Subject | Re: NFS Locking violates protocol spec (incompatible with FreeBSD) |
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On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 11:46:48PM -0500, Trond Myklebust wrote: > >>>>> " " == Kris Kennaway <kris@freebsd.org> writes: > > > > contains more details about this problem, including a > > workaround for FreeBSD to limit the cookie size to 8 bytes. > > Obviously, it would be better for this bug to be fixed in > > Linux, since Linux is non-conformant to the protocol. > > Yes. I saw a mail with a justification for why you want to be able to > wait on > 2^64 outstanding lock requests to a single lockd server, and > was highly amused. > I'm still hoping the person who decided that he needed 1024 byte > long cookies will own up some day. OTOH, he might still be busy > testing his locking code for cookie wraparound... > > > Anyhow, a patch exists (written by Greg Banks), and can be found as > > http://www.fys.uio.no/~trondmy/src/Linux-2.4.x/2.4.23-pre9/linux-2.4.23-01-fix_osx.dif > > > No. It does not extend the cookie size to 1k...
Thanks..obviously we'd like a fix to be committed to Linux so that it interoperates out of the box with FreeBSD. What are the chances of this?
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