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Yves Lepage wrote:
> 

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

samba supports locking if you are EXPORTING a filesystem...

> 
> 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?

not between FreeBSD machines.
(though I remember hearing about someone (terry?)
having a lockd partly written.


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