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Subject: Re: NFS problems...
To: wwong@wiley.csusb.edu (William Wong)
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 1995 07:17:13 -0700 (PDT)
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In-Reply-To: <199510270726.AAA04077@wiley.csusb.edu> from "William Wong" at Oct 27, 95 00:26:25 am
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> > Can't say.  I wouldn't use a shared mail spool, though.  FreeBSD doesn't
> > support NFS file locking (some goes for other free UN*Xes and some
> > commercial ones as well).
> > 

> Since I'm using the FreeBSD mail server to mount a portion of the filesystem
> from the IBM RS/6000 (/home/foo_directory) to its /var directory *and* trying
> to insure that nothing gets accessed in the /home/foo_directory of the IBM
> system, couldn't I get away with not having the file locking capability?

Sure.

> Besides, why doesn't FreeBSD have NFS file locking?  Is it because it isn't
> supported yet?

My understanding is because Sun has poorly documented the protocol.
It's very difficult to code something when you have neither a
specification, nor an existing implementation (in source form) to 
work from.

Nevertheless, I believe someone is working on it.