NFS Locking issues with FreeBSD

[atle]

@Koroljow:
As I understood it they are working on a fix, but they can't promise when it will be ready. We too have several systems, both servers and workstations, that we can't use because of this issue and if it's not fixed soon we have to consider some other distro instead of DSS.

-atle

[Koroljow]

@atle: Do you already have alterntives in your mind ? Most of today's RAIDS seem to work on OPEN-E or on (far too expensive) Netapp systems ...

Best regards,
Koroljow

[atle]

@Koroljow: Ubuntu server 8.04 will probably do the trick for us. It supports our 3ware 9650SE-16ML card as well as all the network cards in the system. If that doesn't work as expected I'll probably go back to my favorite server-distro gentoo even though that one takes a bit more time to set up.

-atle

[Koroljow]

@atle: I have just received an update iso (in engineering state) for this problem from OPEN-E Munic. It seems that the official patch will be out something in between 2 weeks and 2 months. Have you tried to phone them, also ?

[atle]

@Koroljow: I've been exchanging e-mails with support up until two weeks ago and they were supposed to let me know when they have a fix ready.

Let me know if the fix works and I'll bug them again

[Koroljow]

@atle: My management decided to wait for the patch, so I will not be able to test the engineering patch before. If you are interested in getting the iso, please let me know.

[atle]

@Koroljow: I was offered a patch that should solve the issue, but with the drawback that all users would be set to "anonymous". If the patch you have doesn't have this issue I would love to test it out