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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!uunet!in1.uu.net!134.48.1.77!sol.net!spool.mu.edu!newsspool.sol.net!howland.erols.net!EU.net!Ireland.EU.net!maths.tcd.ie!not-for-mail From: dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie (David Malone) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: NFS locking in FreeBSD Date: 23 Jun 1997 00:09:53 +0100 Organization: Dept. of Maths, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. Lines: 19 Sender: mathnews@graves.maths.tcd.ie Message-ID: <5okbc1$o6t@graves.maths.tcd.ie> References: <5obofk$5ri$1@news.indigo.ie> <5ocloi$n5p$6@darla.visi.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: graves.maths.tcd.ie Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:43305 drechsau@nospam.visi.com (Mike Horwath) writes: >Alan Judge <Alan.Judge@indigo.ie> wrote: >: What's the current status (if any) of NFS locking in FreeBSD? Last I heard, >: FreeBSD didn't have NFS locking. Is this still true? >: This might be a show-stopper for us in a new project using a NetApp filer >: as a backend. >Last time I tried this, I got panic'ed :) >But that was months ago, I am sure they got it working by now. Acording to the man pages rpc.statd works OK, but rpc.lockd will allow remote hosts to get locks on a FreeBSD machines, but not the FreeBSD machine to get locks on remote machines. I've seen a similar comment in the rc.* files. David.