Re: /var/lib/nfs/sm/ files

Christian Reis (kiko@async.com.br)
Wed, 8 Jan 2003 09:50:50 -0200


On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 05:54:59PM +0100, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> >>>>> " " == Christian Reis <kiko@async.com.br> writes:
>
> > Hi there,
>
> > Can `anybody' (Neil, Trond?) explain what the entries in
> > /var/lib/nfs/sm/ are for? If they refer to file locks, can we
>
> 'man rpc.statd'. Those files store the IP-addresses of the machines
> being monitored by statd. In case of a crash or a reboot, those files
> tell statd which machines that need to be notified.

Thanks. So my questions are related to what `monitored by statd' means:

- Why don't all the diskless workstations get an entry in that
directory while they are running? Right now I have 5 running, and
only one has an entry there.

- Why do most entries' mtime get updated periodically, but a few of
the entries go stale with time?

- Why do some of the stale entries get left over even after the
workstations have halted (these ones present the nfs hang issue)?

Take care,

--
Christian Reis, Senior Engineer, Async Open Source, Brazil.
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