Date: Tue, 09 Jul 1996 19:26:14 +0100 From: "Gary Palmer" <gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Robin Melville <robmel@nadt.org.uk> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2.1.5 Stable and rpc.lockd Message-ID: <28413.836936774@palmer.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 09 Jul 1996 11:18:16 BST." <199607091018.LAA15174@charlie.nadt.org.uk>
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Robin Melville wrote in message ID <199607091018.LAA15174@charlie.nadt.org.uk>: > We've now turned our whole site over to FreeBSD and are delighted > with it. We use our FreeBSD hosts for NFS, email, in-house database > applications, and an HTTP "intranet" and development area for our > external web presence. Because this is a clinical organisation it's > important we have good availability, so we have opted to await your > official releases rather than tracking ongoing work. > Our question is about 2.1.5 RELEASE versus the imminent(?) 2.2 > RELEASE. There is nothing imminent about 2.2, apart from that it'll happen (eventually :-) ). 2.2 is due out about the end of the year. > We understand from several correspondents that a working version of > rpc.lockd is under development on the -current branch. Obviously > this is of importance to us given our NFS requirement. > Does the -stable release contain the rpc.lockd implementation, or should we > wait for 2.2? If you want rpc.lockd (and I'm not sure WHY you want it, nothing you said above about what you use FreeBSD for, apart from e-mail, really needs rpc.lockd, and if you are NFS mounting /var/mail, you're also asking for trouble :-( ) then youy will likely have to wait for 2.2-RELEASE, and even then I can't guarentee that a fully functional rpc.lockd will be present. Currently, I believe, a stub rpc.lockd is in the code, which just blindly accepts all lock requests without actually doing anything about checking to see if it just granted multiple clients with locks on a single file. It's mainly to quieten DOS based NFS clients which insist on talking to a lockd server. Considering that people (in the know) say that Sun never got rpc.lockd right either, I'd be surprised if we get WORKING NFS locking which also inter-operates with Sun code properly. Gary -- Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info
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