[Samba] Re: Exporting a nfs mount => A bad idea?

Christopher Odenbach odenbach at hni.upb.de
Fri Nov 14 07:22:46 GMT 2003


Hi Carsten,

> since noone answered to my mail below and because of further
> investigations I've got this simple question:
>
> Is exporting a nfs mount a bad idea?

Depends.

Exporting an nfs mounted fs via samba doubles network traffic. Another 
problem is that you insert another layer into your system which can 
cause trouble - just as you are experiencing now. :-(

No idea how to solve your locking problem though.

Christopher

> > [2003/11/11 10:20:36, 0] locking/posix.c:posix_fcntl_lock(657)
> >   posix_fcntl_lock: WARNING: lock request at offset 2147483539,
> > length 1 returned
> > [2003/11/11 10:20:36, 0] locking/posix.c:posix_fcntl_lock(658)
> >   an No locks available error. This can happen when using 64 bit
> > lock offsets
> > [2003/11/11 10:20:36, 0] locking/posix.c:posix_fcntl_lock(659)
> >   on 32 bit NFS mounted file systems.
>
> > What can I do? How can I mount a nfs on 64 bit? Or can I change
> > samba to use 32 bit lock offsets on this particular share? Any
> > ideas?
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> >
> > Carsten

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