Date: Sat, 28 Jan 1995 22:55:37 +0100 (MET) From: guido@gvr.win.tue.nl (Guido van Rooij) To: wollman@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman) Cc: gvrooij@mmra1.ms.philips.nl, questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: file locking over NFS Message-ID: <199501282155.WAA04601@gvr.win.tue.nl> In-Reply-To: <9501271957.AA12070@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> from "Garrett Wollman" at Jan 27, 95 02:57:32 pm
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Garrett Wollman wrote: > > Can't be done until someone actually implements the Sun lockd > protocol. (At this point, Terry will beging flaming endlessly about > implementation details of Sun's version.) There are sources (like one > of the X/Open books) which claim to define the protocol, but I have > not heard of someone yet successfully implementing something that > completely interoperates with Sun hosts. > We now have a FreeBSD server. We want to be able to scale it such that ppl logon to a bunch of 486's with a larger server. But this seems impossible to achieve w.r.t. mailbox's. How do ppl solve this? (I cant imagine that FreeBSD machines never play the role of servers...and people *do* read their mail while new mail comes in, don't they?) -Guido
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