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From: Yves Lepage <yves@CC.McGill.CA>
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 96 10:05:24 -0500
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Subject: Please, tell me I am wrong
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Hi all,

After my browsing of the various mail archives, I saw a number of things worth mentionning:

- NFS on FreeBSD does not support file locking. Maybe it will in the future
  but it probably won't inter-operate with Sun's.

- There isn't a port of smbfs to FreeBSD yet.


Does that mean that there is currently no mechanism in FreeBSD that would do
the equivalent of a distributed file system that would also do proper
file locking?

Please, tell me it isn't so and that I missed the references to that great
thing that FreeBSD has :-)

Thanks a lot,
Yves Lepage