[TriLUG] nfs locks

[r.wheaton]

i used to deal with nfs all the time, but haven't used it in such a long 
time.  i remember most of the basics and have been going over stuff in 
my head lately, and tonite i decided to read up a bit.  but i can't seem 
to find much specific info on lockd ant statd aside from their man 
pages.  when a client locks up a share, does statd create a entry for 
the locked host in /var/lock/subsys/nfslock, or  a file in 
/var/lib/nfs/statd?  and, after finding which host/share was locked 
would one go about removing the lock by merely finding that process 
doing a 'ps aux' and killing the specific process??  or would you just 
restart nfslock?

i'm sorry if this makes no sense, but i'm really tired and have been 
doing nothing but looking at docs all night.

-rtw