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From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
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To: "Victor Granic" <vmg@novator.com>
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Subject: Re: Is it possible?
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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 think Terry's stuff addressed kernel bugs.  In order for locking
    to work between NFS hosts, rpc.lockd needs to be implemented and
    nobody has taken up the task yet.  It's been a thorn in FreeBSD's
    side for a while now.  The RPC framework is in place, but none of
    the routine have been implemented yet.

	 				-Matt

:Thank you,
:
:Victor Granic
:
:...
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    Matthew Dillon  Engineering, HiWay Technologies, Inc. & BEST Internet 
                    Communications & God knows what else.
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