Date: Mon, 10 Nov 1997 10:19:51 -0500 (EST) From: Charles Owens <owensc@enc.edu> To: hackers list FreeBSD <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: NFS locking status (rpc.lockd) ? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.971110100138.6326K-100000@itsdsv2.enc.edu>
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Hi all,
Is anyone currently working on getting NFS locking to work? I just dug
through the list archive and it appears, a few months back, at least, that
some folks had been thinking seriously about attempting an implementation.
Where do we stand now?
I'm in the design stage for a large-scale system that pretty much requires
NFS-locking. In short, the basic design is a cluster of identical servers
that NFS-mount user and group file areas off of one or more central,
RAID-based NFS server(s).
I'd _really_ like to use FreeBSD for this, but unless I can get the
locking working I don't see how it can happen. (Any clever ideas for
working around the lack of NFS locking?)
If anyone _is_ working on this, I'd be glad to be of assistance in testing
or whatever. I have access to FreeBSD, Solaris, and AIX (3.2.5 and 4.1)
boxes.
thanks,
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