Date: Fri, 27 Oct 1995 07:17:13 -0700 (PDT) From: bmk@dtr.com To: wwong@wiley.csusb.edu (William Wong) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NFS problems... Message-ID: <199510271417.HAA28076@dtr.com> 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.
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