From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 15 15:27:31 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id PAA12069 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 15 Aug 1995 15:27:31 -0700 Received: from cs.weber.edu (cs.weber.edu [137.190.16.16]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with SMTP id PAA12055 for ; Tue, 15 Aug 1995 15:27:26 -0700 Received: by cs.weber.edu (4.1/SMI-4.1.1) id AA07736; Tue, 15 Aug 95 16:20:00 MDT From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Message-Id: <9508152220.AA07736@cs.weber.edu> Subject: Re: *** locks in NFS, does FreeBSD have them *** To: kallio@jyu.fi (Seppo Kallio) Date: Tue, 15 Aug 95 16:19:59 MDT Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Seppo Kallio" at Aug 15, 95 02:30:20 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4dev PL52] Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > Our Solaris system is complaining about FreeBSD nfs not using locks. > > Is this an error in communication, or is it so that FreeBSD has no locks > and data in exported partion can be corrupted if bouth nfs user and local > user are updating data? FreeBSD does not have NFS locks (lockd + statd). However, since there is not a coherency protocol in force and your Solaris does client caching, you are in danger of this type of corrupts even going from Solaris to Solaris (this is why Sun recommends mail files always be accessed locally). What are you trying to use this for such that you see an error? Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.