I have a general question about installing updates and wanted to get some advice from experts. First: I have NFS Locking failures on shutdown. Is this a bid deal? Should I even worry about it? Second: I have read and googled a lot about this problem and it seems that it is supposed to be fixed with nfs-utils-1.0.7-16. I have already updated my machine via yum update and apt-get update . When I do a yum search, I get: Code: [root@Mr-Burns ~]# yum search nfs-utils Searching Packages: Setting up repositories updates-released 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 extras 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00 base 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00 Reading repository metadata in from local files updates-re: ################################################## 941/941 Added 5 new packages, deleted 18 old in 8.44 seconds nfs-utils.i386 1.0.7-8 base Matched from: nfs-utils The nfs-utils package provides a daemon for the kernel NFS server and related tools, which provides a much higher level of performance than the traditional Linux NFS server used by most users. This package also contains the showmount program. Showmount queries the mount daemon on a remote host for information about the NFS (Network File System) server on the remote host. For example, showmount can display the clients which are mounted on that host. nfs-utils-debuginfo.i386 1.0.7-11 updates-released Matched from: nfs-utils-debuginfo Debug information for package nfs-utils This package provides debug information for package nfs-utils. Debug information is useful when developing applications that use this package or when debugging this package. nfs-utils.i386 1.0.7-11 updates-released Matched from: nfs-utils The nfs-utils package provides a daemon for the kernel NFS server and related tools, which provides a much higher level of performance than the traditional Linux NFS server used by most users. This package also contains the showmount program. Showmount queries the mount daemon on a remote host for information about the NFS (Network File System) server on the remote host. For example, showmount can display the clients which are mounted on that host. nfs-utils.i386 1.0.7-11 installed Matched from: nfs-utils The nfs-utils package provides a daemon for the kernel NFS server and related tools, providing a much higher level of performance than the traditional Linux NFS server used by most users. This package also contains the showmount program. Showmount queries the mount daemon on a remote host for information about the NFS (Network File System) server on the remote host. [root@Mr-Burns ~]# It appears that I only have 1.0.7-11 installed. How can I find out if this is the latest released version? If it is, should I try to install an unreleased 1.0.7-16 to fix my problem, or am I just asking for more headaches? Finally: Can I just turn off NFS locking using a chkconfig command? What will happen if I just decide to not use NFS Locking? Thanks!
