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xapianovernfs
2008 Dec 02
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NFSv4 and locking
Greetings,
We use NFSv4 on our cluster and perform distributed indexing (well, we
used to on our previous system which used a simple touch() locking
mechanism).
I'm having a spot of bother getting Xapian to obtain a lock (hangs on
fcntl64()).
I've read http://trac.xapian.org/wiki/XapianOverNFS and other list
posts, and noted that a lock daemon should be running to allow locks
to occur. Now, lockd *is* running (but isn't listening on any ports),
but apparently NFSv4 doesn't use lockd to perform locks, it's built
into the protocol.
So, how-now-brown-cow? I'm tem...