From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Dec 19 10:13:30 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id KAA03064 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 19 Dec 1996 10:13:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id KAA03053 for ; Thu, 19 Dec 1996 10:13:27 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id LAA11829; Thu, 19 Dec 1996 11:10:56 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199612191810.LAA11829@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Please, tell me I am wrong To: yves@CC.McGill.CA Date: Thu, 19 Dec 1996 11:10:56 -0700 (MST) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199612191505.KAA00925@maelstrom.CC.McGill.CA> from "Yves Lepage" at Dec 19, 96 10:05:24 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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.