From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Sep 11 07:17:39 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id HAA04963 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 11 Sep 1996 07:17:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from zwei.siemens.at (zwei.siemens.at [193.81.246.12]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id HAA04953 for ; Wed, 11 Sep 1996 07:17:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sol1.gud.siemens.co.at (root@firix [10.1.143.100]) by zwei.siemens.at (8.7.4/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA08851 for ; Wed, 11 Sep 1996 16:16:14 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from ws2301.gud.siemens.co.at by sol1.gud.siemens.co.at with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #7 for ) id m0v0q61-00020EC; Wed, 11 Sep 96 16:16 MET DST Received: by ws2301.gud.siemens.co.at (1.37.109.16/1.37) id AA238531140; Wed, 11 Sep 1996 16:12:20 +0200 From: "Hr.Ladavac" Message-Id: <199609111412.AA238531140@ws2301.gud.siemens.co.at> Subject: Re: NFS locking (fwd) To: hackers@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 16:12:20 +0200 (MESZ) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk ----- Forwarded message from Jos Vissers ----- >From Jos.Vissers@telebyte.nl Wed Sep 11 15:23:18 MES 1996 From: Jos Vissers 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 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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