[gentoo-user] Is there a "lock daemon" for managing file locking on an NFS server?

[gentoo-user] Is there a "lock daemon" for managing file locking on an NFS server?

[Amit Dor-Shifer]

e.g. 'lockd'?
If so, which ebuild installs it?
10x,

Amit

Re: [gentoo-user] Is there a "lock daemon" for managing file locking on an NFS server?

[Xavier Parizet]

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On 02/25/2010 02:56 PM, Amit Dor-Shifer wrote:
> e.g. 'lockd'?
> If so, which ebuild installs it?

Well i'm using NFS for a while now, and i just checked: nothing like
this is running on my nfs server.

Do you have a "special" reason for asking ? (i mean a bug or weird
behaviour regarding nfs)

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Re: [gentoo-user] Is there a "lock daemon" for managing file locking on an NFS server?

[Alan McKinnon]

On Thursday 25 February 2010 15:56:28 Amit Dor-Shifer wrote:
> e.g. 'lockd'?
> If so, which ebuild installs it?
> 10x,
> 
> Amit

I went looking for rpc.lockd and couldn't find it either ;-(

I fully expected ti to be there so a lot of hunting in /etc/init.d ensued. 
Then I remember something about lock.d with the transition to rpcbind from 
portmap, but the details escape me now.

Anyone else remember?


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Re: [gentoo-user] Is there a "lock daemon" for managing file locking on an NFS server?

[Xavier Parizet]

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On 02/25/2010 03:27 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Thursday 25 February 2010 15:56:28 Amit Dor-Shifer wrote:
>> e.g. 'lockd'?
>> If so, which ebuild installs it?
>> 10x,
>>
>> Amit
> 
> I went looking for rpc.lockd and couldn't find it either ;-(
> 
> I fully expected ti to be there so a lot of hunting in /etc/init.d ensued. 
> Then I remember something about lock.d with the transition to rpcbind from 
> portmap, but the details escape me now.
> 
> Anyone else remember?

Actually looking on the web, old (very old) kernels did not start
automatically nfs lockd in-kernel daemon. This behaviour was worked
around using so-called rpc.lockd or something to start tell the kernel
to start it.

With newer versions of the kernel, lockd is started automatically by the
kernel, leading rpc.lockd useless and being removed.

Please someone correct me if i understood badly what i found on the web.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Is there a "lock daemon" for managing file locking on an NFS server?

[Neil Walker]

Amit Dor-Shifer wrote:
> e.g. 'lockd'?
> If so, which ebuild installs it?

I abandoned nfs quite a while ago but, afaik, file locking is handled
internally by the kernel.


Be lucky,

Neil
http://www.neiljw.com

[gentoo-user] Re: Is there a "lock daemon" for managing file locking on an NFS server?

[walt]

On 02/25/2010 07:05 AM, Neil Walker wrote:
> Amit Dor-Shifer wrote:
>> e.g. 'lockd'?
>> If so, which ebuild installs it?
>
> I abandoned nfs quite a while ago but...

Are you using something else instead now?

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is there a "lock daemon" for managing file locking on an NFS server?

[Neil Walker]

walt wrote:
> On 02/25/2010 07:05 AM, Neil Walker wrote:
>> I abandoned nfs quite a while ago but...
>
> Are you using something else instead now?

I was using nfs for portage on my local network. I use http-proxy now.
For everything else, I use ssh.


Be lucky,

Neil
http://www.neiljw.com

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is there a "lock daemon" for managing file locking on an NFS server?

[Neil Walker]

Neil Walker wrote:
> I use http-proxy now.
>   

Sorry, that should be http-replicator.


Be lucky,

Neil
http://www.neiljw.com

Re: [gentoo-user] Is there a "lock daemon" for managing file locking on an NFS server?

[Amit Dor-Shifer]

Xavier Parizet wrote:
> On 02/25/2010 02:56 PM, Amit Dor-Shifer wrote:
>   
>> e.g. 'lockd'?
>> If so, which ebuild installs it?
>>     
>
> Well i'm using NFS for a while now, and i just checked: nothing like
> this is running on my nfs server.
>
> Do you have a "special" reason for asking ? (i mean a bug or weird
> behaviour regarding nfs)
>
>   
No "special" reason. I'm studying NFS.
10x,
Amit

Re: [gentoo-user] Is there a "lock daemon" for managing file locking on an NFS server? [SOLVED]

[Amit Dor-Shifer]

Neil Walker wrote:
> Amit Dor-Shifer wrote:
>   
>> e.g. 'lockd'?
>> If so, which ebuild installs it?
>>     
>
> I abandoned nfs quite a while ago but, afaik, file locking is handled
> internally by the kernel.
>
>
> Be lucky,
>
> Neil
> http://www.neiljw.com
>
>
>
>   
rpc.lockd was removed starting of nfs-utils-1.1.0 (~May 2007).
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?group_id=14&release_id=507588

Thanks to everyone who helped pointing me at the right direction.

Amit