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Date:      Wed, 11 Sep 1996 16:12:20 +0200 (MESZ)
From:      "Hr.Ladavac" <lada@ws2301.gud.siemens.co.at>
To:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: NFS locking (fwd)
Message-ID:  <199609111412.AA238531140@ws2301.gud.siemens.co.at>

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----- Forwarded message from Jos Vissers -----

>From Jos.Vissers@telebyte.nl Wed Sep 11 15:23:18 MES 1996
From: Jos Vissers <Jos.Vissers@telebyte.nl>
Message-Id: <199609111327.PAA14170@monet.telebyte.nl>
Subject: Re: NFS locking
To: lada@ws2301.gud.siemens.co.at (Hr.Ladavac)
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 15:27:07 +0200 (MET DST)
In-Reply-To: <199609111314.AA227477684@ws2301.gud.siemens.co.at> from "Hr.Ladavac" at Sep 11, 96 03:14:44 pm
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Hr.Ladavac wrote:
> It will probably have to wait until Sun (SMI) people release the specs or
> someone reverse engineers the NFS remote locking protocol.
> 
> I guess you wouldn't be happy with NFS locking only among FreeBSD machines.

I heard that Linux will be or is supporting it, and personally I'd
rather stay with FreeBSD, but my employer is convinced that
Linux is better.

Jos

-- 
   Jos Vissers, System administrator Telebyte

----- End of forwarded message from Jos Vissers -----


Anyone knows anything about Linux NFS locking.  Last I've heard it was
rather confusing: client only/server grants the lock to everyone.
Somewhat contradictory, indeed.

/Marino



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