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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
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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