From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Mar 31 13: 5:41 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from nero.cybersites.com (nero.cybersites.com [207.92.123.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5327C14E2E for ; Wed, 31 Mar 1999 13:05:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cyouse@cybersites.com) Received: from ns1.cybersites.com (ns1.cybersites.com [207.92.123.2]) by nero.cybersites.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id QAA20786 for ; Wed, 31 Mar 1999 16:09:16 -0500 From: Chuck Youse To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: NFS and file locking Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 15:37:40 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.17] Content-Type: text/plain MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <99033116022602.00374@ns1.cybersites.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-KMail-Mark: Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I work at a company that is currently using Linux, with some recent patches, to access IRIX filesystems over NFS. They utilize NFS locking (rpc.lockd/etc) fairly heavily. [I didn't say the design was great ;)] I'd like to move toward using FreeBSD instead of Linux, but unfortunately NFS locking is not supported. I did some digging around and noticed that Terry Lambert had created some patches (against the 2.x trees) to support locking, but that we still lack an implementation of rpc.lockd to complete the project. I also noticed some comments elsewhere to the effect that it's nearly impossible to implement NFS locking within the current kernels properly. What's the status of this stuff? To my knowledge, Terry's patches were never accepted into the tree -- why was that? What ever happened to the rpc.lockd project? -- Chuck Youse Director of Systems cyouse@cybersites.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message