Re: [Netatalk-admins] 2.0.3, and solaris 9. Re: NFS-AFP gateway failing on noadouble.

[Omri S. <ocschwar@MIT.EDU>]

On Thu, 27 Sep 2007, Didier wrote:

> Hi,
> On Thu, 27 Sep 2007 14:15:53 -0400 (EDT), Omri Schwarz wrote
>> On Wed, 26 Sep 2007, Didier wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>> On Mon, 24 Sep 2007 14:21:39 -0400 (EDT), Omri Schwarz wrote
>>>> Hi, all.
>>>>
>>>> I've a Fedora Core 6 server with FC6's RPM of netatalk,
>>>> serving over TCP only, and offering '~', i.e. the home directories.
>>>> These come from a multitude of Solaris 9 NFS version 3 servers,
>>>> and therein lies the rub. When lockd on those stations decides to
>>>> get on the blink, netatalk gets stalled on calling fcntl() on the
>>>> ..AppleDouble/whatever file, and every operation, including the
>>>> mounting, becomes as slow as mollases.
>>> You can try:
>>> - Don't start lockd at all! It was working for some versions of linux nfs
> client.
>>
>> The NFS servers run Solaris and need lockd for other uses.
> I was thinking of lockd/statd on the linux netatalk server, or are you running
> netatalk on Solaris?

No. This is a Linux AFP server, which is trying to re-export some
NFS shares living on Solaris servers.

Which means lockd/statd on the Linux server should be irrelevant,
but just in case, I turned the off. Problem persists.




>>
>>> - or recompile netatalk with configure --disable-locking, I'm not sure it's
>>> working if the cnid db is on a nfs mounted volume though.
>>
>>> Of course in both case if a volume is mounted by two users you're in trouble.
>>
>> Might do it, but:
>>
>> I'm trying with GCC 3.2.2, and right now the
>> CVS version fails to build on this error:
> You should rather use branch-netatalk-2-0. HEAD is ok just a little less tested.
>
> If branch-netatalk-2-0 still doesn't compile (offending lines are ifdef out)
> you can try to configure with --disable-quota.

Yup. That works. Thanks.


Omri Schwarz --- ocs...@mi...
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