[Steve Modica]

I tried nfsv4 and it hangs pretty quickly (probably trying to do locking). I haven’t investigated yet.

Steve Modica
CTO, Small Tree Communications

[Steve Modica]

There’s no obvious answer I can see by tracing FCP. It opens some files in /var/folders that look to be a mirror of other files on the system and it performs fcntl calls on them. However it never even tries to do this with AFP. They just stat the filesystem and give up.

Steve Modica
CTO, Small Tree Communications

[Steve Modica]

Hi Bob
You want to put this into your /etc/nfs.conf file:

spongebob:~ modica$ cat /etc/nfs.conf
#
# nfs.conf: the NFS configuration file
#
nfs.client.mount.options = locallocks

This will automatically put in the NFS options you want on the client.
If you use local locks, the server doesn’t need to be running lockd.
Steve

Steve Modica
CTO, Small Tree Communications

[Steve Modica]

Bob, for persistent Mac NFS mounts, edit /etc/nfs.conf. You can put in nfs options there (like locallocks)
The example mount command above has both “nolocks” and “locallocks” which I think are mutually exclusive.

Steve Modica
CTO, Small Tree Communications

[Steve Modica]

Yup.. nolocks = nohappy. Will not open stuff on NFS if locking is disabled. Operation not supported.

Steve Modica
CTO, Small Tree Communications

[Steve Modica]

It appears to be completely happy with NFS mounts. I didn’t have to create any special directories (like Final Cut Events or Final Cut Projects) before it would save to it. I just think nfs locks have to be enabled. I’m about to try without them.

Steve Modica
CTO, Small Tree Communications

[Steve Modica]

Usually, it’s because the firmware on the machine has been updated. The new firmware probably has a dependency on Mavericks (for example, the format or location of the kernel it’s pulling in). If you could downgrade the firmware, I’ll bet you could get it to boot Mountain Lion.

Steve Modica
CTO, Small Tree Communications

[Steve Modica]

I have a feeling the server isn’t running rpc.lockd. Without that, FCP can’t create it’s .fcplock file. You need to edit /etc/nfs.conf and put in the option for locallocks. See the man page for nfs.conf. There’s a parameter in there for setting standard nfs options. You need “locallocks”

Steve Modica
CTO, Small Tree Communications

[Steve Modica]

Hi Paul

You’re not going to get screaming performance out of a stock FreeNAS kernel for things like AFP and SMB (especially not for video editing). They are setup as stock fileservers.

Steve Modica
CTO, Small Tree Communications

[Steve Modica]

I just had the good fortune to work with a very patient customer in Singapore on this issue.

Bob, make sure your server has rpc.lockd *or* make sure you set “locallocks” in the nfs.conf file. (see the man page for nfs.conf. There’s an options parameter where you can set normal NFS options)

FCP wants to lock the .fcplock file it creates. If you don’t have something enabled so it can, it gets errno 45 (operation not supported) and chokes. The error says the location is already locked by “null”. Very unhelpful.

Steve

Steve Modica
CTO, Small Tree Communications