Date: Mon, 7 Dec 1998 22:02:46 -0500 (EST) From: "Victor Granic" <vmg@novator.com> To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Is it possible? Message-ID: <199812080302.WAA03519@ns.novator.com>
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Hello, I have run into the proverbial brick wall. I am the administrator of a fairly busy electronic commerce Web site, www.ftd.com. Because of the demand placed on a single server, I implemented a load balancing solution that utilizes NFS in the back end. The versions of FreeBSD that I have tested (2.2.7 and 3.0) do not support exclusive advisory locks over NFS. Last week I was directed to Terry Lambert's Web page on the freebsd.org Web server. He makes available several patches for the kernel sources that supposedly fix the locking bugs. I attempted to patch both versions of FreeBSD that I have installed. On both systems the patch command failed to patch all the required files and the differences were too great to edit by hand. My motivation for sending this message is simple. I am an avid supporter of free software and open source initiatives. I have used FreeBSD in the past and I have always had very good experiences implementing Web servers, and firewalls. My current project on the FTD Web site is dependent on locking over NFS. Is there a solution to my problem? Truely, the last thing I would want to do to solve this problem is to have to purchase a commercial version of UNIX from Sun or some other behemoth. This is also my last resort as I have already posted to the FreeBSD newgroups and mailing lists without any response to my query. Thank you, Victor Granic -- Victor Granic.................................email: vmg@ftd.com FTD Internet, Web Admin.........................tel: 416-260-5131 Novator Systems, Ltd............................fax: 416-260-2924 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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