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From: cgd@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Chris G. Demetriou)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Can 386BSD be used as a NFS Server?
Date: 31 Mar 93 20:27:24
Organization: Kernel Hackers 'r' Us
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In-reply-to: vv77076@cc.tut.fi's message of 31 Mar 93 18:32:48
In article <VV77076.93Mar31183248@lehtori.cc.tut.fi> vv77076@cc.tut.fi (Vanhatupa Vesa) writes:
>1. Can anyone comment about reliability of 386BSD as a NFS -server.
>(Does it support file sharing/locking between multiple msdos clients?)
i don't know how well it works with DOS in general, but it's worth
noting that *NO* non-commercial unix has support for NFS file
locking -- the lockd used to be so damned obscure that nobody
could figure out how to write a compliant one. however, now,
apparently there are docs for it.
if you're interested in writing a lockd and putting it under the
berkeley license (rather than the GPL), talk to
glass@postgres.berkeley.edu. he's not a lockd god, or anything,
but has enough pointers to docs to get you started...
chris
--
Chris G. Demetriou cgd@cs.berkeley.edu
"386bsd as depth first search: whenever you go to fix something you
find that 3 more things are actually broken." -- Adam Glass