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- From: georgn@noweh.com (Georg S. Nikodym)
- Subject: Re: SAVE ME FROM RPC.LOCKD
- In-Reply-To: steve@ibx.com's message of Tue, 8 Dec 92 01:19:35 GMT
- Message-ID: <GEORGN.92Dec15234115@idcrisis.noweh.com>
- Sender: georgn@noweh.com (Georg S. Nikodym)
- Organization: Noweh Software, Mississauga, CANADA
- References: <1992Dec8.011935.25011@ibx.com>
- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 04:41:18 GMT
- Lines: 40
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- In article <1992Dec8.011935.25011@ibx.com> steve@ibx.com (Steve Giuliano) writes:
-
- Please...Somebody clue me in...Why can't Sun fix rpc.lockd?
-
- Because the fundamental design of NFS locking, while true to the NFS
- model, is flawed.
-
- Sun told me that all my problems would go away with revision 08
- of the lockd patch. Wrongo! Now rev 09 is out. Do I dare?
-
- Yes, dare. On SPARC machines the latest patches do appear to work
- (again within what is possible with NFS).
-
- Also, someone from Sun told me that any lockd patch must be placed
- on all machines on the net for the 'full effect'. Is this true?
- I've got 500 workstations and Sun isn't exactly rushing down here to install
- the damn thing.
-
- This is correct to a point. The lockd patch must be placed on the
- machines that serve the NFS filesystems as well as the clients.
-
- As for the large task of installation over 500+ machines, an idea that
- comes immediately to mind is to use something like rdist (which is
- bundled into the OS, BTW). I'd expect that the patching could happen
- over night without much incident.
-
- Does someone have the secret of the universe here? Sun has been
- no help. Meanwhile, I've got scores of products (Wingz, WP5.1, etc)
- that don't function properly because of this.
-
- The secret of the universe is to organize your resources to minimize
- the effects of various known gotcha in a networked UNIX environment.
- Counting on NFS locking is one of those things. I don't thing that
- _any_ vendor has it right, in fact when I worked at one that shall
- remain nameless, we wished that we could have one like Sun's!
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