Re: File locking via fcntl() broken for NFS mounts in RHEL4u2

[Jason Baron <jbaron redhat com>]

On Tue, 28 Feb 2006, Stowell Davison wrote:

> 
> 
> Jason Baron wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 28 Feb 2006, John Haxby wrote:
> > 
> >  
> > > Stowell Davison wrote:
> > > 
> > >    
> > > > Does anyone have a suggestion for dealing with this?...
> > > > 
> > > > Cooperative file locks using the fcntl() system call do
> > > > not seem to work on NFS mounted drives in rhel4u2.  The
> > > > python script appended to this message demonstrates the
> > > > problem.
> > > >      
> > > I believe that there's a similar problem reported in Red Hat's bugzilla:
> > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=167192 which looks as
> > > though it's going to get fixed in U3.
> > >    
> > 
> > indeed, it'd be helpful if you could test the U3 beta. thanks.
> > 
> >  
> Red Hat supplied kernel-smp-2.6.9-30.EL.i686.rpm.  Apparently that's the
> most recent rhel4u3 beta kernel.  It did not solve the problem.  (Kernel
> 2.6.15 from kernel.org does fix it.)
> 
> Stowe Davison
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Can you please try the patch in bz #182137 comment #2. If you want i can 
build test kernel rpms. thanks. 

-Jason