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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!uwm.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!caen!usenet.coe.montana.edu!bsd.coe.montana.edu!root From: root@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Superuser) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: FreeBSD NFS support file/record locking? Date: 4 Jan 1995 00:46:46 GMT Organization: Montana State University, Bozeman Montana Lines: 13 Message-ID: <3ecr5m$772@pdq.coe.montana.edu> References: <hsingnan-0401950103340001@128.149.29.115> NNTP-Posting-Host: bsd.coe.montana.edu In article <hsingnan-0401950103340001@128.149.29.115>, Dan Chang <hsingnan@ivo.jpl.nasa.gov> wrote: >I am considering using FreeBSD 2.0 as an NFS server for >some light-duty shared database applications. Does the >FreeBSD 2.0 implementation of NFS properly handle >file/record locking with NLM/rpc.lockd? Although I believe the specs. became available recently, implementing this is a non-trivial task. Sun, who invented it took quite a few times to get it right so I suspect it may be awhile before you see it. Nate