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From: "Ron G. Minnich" <rminnich@Sarnoff.COM>
To: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
cc: Rashid Karimov <rashid@rk.ios.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Some SERIOUS NFS usage - advice needed
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Actually, it's not a good idea to do lots of nfs locking on SUNs, much 
less freebsd. Direct experience with 16 or more nodes locking files on 
one server shows that even solaris 2.x still won't do it right. You need 
to think of a different way to go.
ron

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