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From: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
To: "Jesper Juhl" <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 16:49:18 +1000
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Subject: Re: [NFS] 2.6.17.8 - do_vfs_lock: VFS is out of sync with lock manager!
In-Reply-To: message from Jesper Juhl on Tuesday August 8
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On Tuesday August 8, jesper.juhl@gmail.com wrote:
> I have some webservers that have recently started reporting the
> following message in their logs :
> 
>   do_vfs_lock: VFS is out of sync with lock manager!


I can imagine that happening if you mount with '-o nolocks'.
Then a non-blocking lock could cause that message (I think).
Can you conform that you aren't using 'nolocks'.

Thanks,
NeilBrown