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From: guido@gvr.win.tue.nl (Guido van Rooij)
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Subject: Re: file locking over NFS
To: wollman@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman)
Date: Sat, 28 Jan 1995 22:55:37 +0100 (MET)
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In-Reply-To: <9501271957.AA12070@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> from "Garrett Wollman" at Jan 27, 95 02:57:32 pm
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Garrett Wollman wrote:
> 
> Can't be done until someone actually implements the Sun lockd
> protocol.  (At this point, Terry will beging flaming endlessly about
> implementation details of Sun's version.)  There are sources (like one
> of the X/Open books) which claim to define the protocol, but I have
> not heard of someone yet successfully implementing something that
> completely interoperates with Sun hosts.
> 

We now have a FreeBSD server. We want to be able to scale it such that
ppl logon to a bunch of 486's with a larger server.
But this seems impossible to achieve w.r.t. mailbox's. How do ppl
solve this? (I cant imagine that FreeBSD machines never play the role
of servers...and people *do* read their mail while new mail comes in,
don't they?)

-Guido