From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Nov 30 1:24:22 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from herring.nlsystems.com (nlsys.demon.co.uk [158.152.125.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AFFE714D28; Tue, 30 Nov 1999 01:23:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from salmon.nlsystems.com (salmon.nlsystems.com [10.0.0.3]) by herring.nlsystems.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA78091; Tue, 30 Nov 1999 09:29:54 GMT (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1999 09:29:54 +0000 (GMT) From: Doug Rabson To: Dan Moschuk Cc: Conrad Minshall , "C. Stephen Gunn" , hackers@freebsd.org, rick@snowhite.cis.uoguelph.ca Subject: Re: Ok, that's it, enough is enough! (rpc.lockd) In-Reply-To: <19991129155217.C2999@spirit.jaded.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 29 Nov 1999, Dan Moschuk wrote: > > | >I'm fairly certain that rpc.lockd is included with Darwin from Apple, > | >I've not closely compared it to what we have in -STABLE or -CURRENT > | >to see if it actually works. > | > | It doesn't, sorry... if someone gets a *BSD version of NFS locking operating > | I'd help see it into Darwin. > | > | BTW, is anyone working on NFS Version 4 for BSD? Rick? > > A few of us talked about this on IRC a few weeks ago and it was decided that > when/if we implement NFSv4 it would have to be from scratch. A pretty big > task. I reviewed the NFSv4 specs recently and came to the same conclusion. To do it right will be quite a bit of work and would include a decent kernel side implementation of rpc and gssapi. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message