[Nix-dev] NFS patches (idmapd etc)

[Lluís Batlle i Rossell]

On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 03:20:46PM +0100, Eelco Dolstra wrote:
> On 22/03/12 14:02, Lluís Batlle i Rossell wrote:
> 
> > It is still broken, right?
> 
> The test passed for me, but there still seems to be some random race condition (?):
> 
>   http://hydra.nixos.org/build/2315700
> 
> In particular:
> 
> > server# [  133.310848] lockd: rejected NSM callback from 127.0.0.1, port=40233
> > server# Mar 22 14:13:28 server rpc.statd[1837]: nsm_parse_reply: [0x4f6f9fd2] RPC accept status 5
> 
> This seems to suggest that statd is sometimes not using a privileged port to
> talk to the kernel.  Maybe passing --outgoing-port to statd will help.

I don't know at all. The analysis does not look like it should have symptoms similar to
a race.

Rickard, our NFS expert, any clue?

Regards,
Lluís.