Date: Tue, 30 Apr 1996 16:55:20 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: robmel@innotts.co.uk Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: rpc.lockd ?? Message-ID: <199604302355.QAA08148@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <31869316.6C0F@innotts.co.uk> from "robmel@innotts.co.uk" at Apr 30, 96 10:24:22 pm
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> We've been using a couple of freeBSD machines now for a while for > mail, bootp, httpd, uucp, and routing. I want to migrate NFS services > off my remaining SCO boxes onto BSD because it seems so much more > reliable. > > NFS sharing is primarily for Windows 3.11 workstations via pcnfs. (Yes > I know about samba, and we have evaluated it... but our users are very > happy with existing NFS services, and we're reluctant to go over to > WfWG -- it seems very insecure) > > The freeBSD NFS suite seems to lack the necessary rlockd daemon. I've > been in correspondance with the author of a freeBSD port, but it is > only a dummy, it always grants locks without actually doing anything. > > Is there, to your knowledge, a working port of this daemon for BSD? I > have looked at the code with a view to writing at least cooperative > locking, but I'm afraid my knowledge of rpc programming isn't that > good and I fear I would have to spend many an hour getting up to speed > on it. I recently submitted all the kernel patches necessary for support of the rpc.lockd, with the exception of handle translation, which could be fudged in about 20 lines of code if you were willing to require the NFS server code to be statically compiled into the kernel. The main issues are all the state saving in the user space code (mostly nothing more than grunt-work: Andrew did most of the necessary support). I don't have a Sun system handy, so I can't do testing, unfortunately. Jordan was going to do the middle code for an OS class he's taking at Berkeley. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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