Date: Thu, 19 Dec 1996 11:10:56 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: yves@CC.McGill.CA Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Please, tell me I am wrong Message-ID: <199612191810.LAA11829@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199612191505.KAA00925@maelstrom.CC.McGill.CA> from "Yves Lepage" at Dec 19, 96 10:05:24 am
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> 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 :-) You missed the patches I posted to -current about a year ago the implement the fcntl() interfaces necessary for NFS server locking on a clients behalf, and you missed the fact that there is a working rpc.statd and a stubbed rpc.lockd in the source tree. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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