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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 temp...