From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 9 01:17:30 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id BAA07271 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 9 Dec 1995 01:17:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id BAA07265 for ; Sat, 9 Dec 1995 01:17:24 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id CAA01631; Sat, 9 Dec 1995 02:15:51 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199512090915.CAA01631@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: rpc.lockd? To: jason@oozoo.vnet.net (Jason Wright) Date: Sat, 9 Dec 1995 02:15:51 -0700 (MST) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199512090244.VAA10637@postgres95.vnet.net> from "Jason Wright" at Dec 8, 95 09:44:18 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > We're a mostly Sun house, but we're using FreeBSD as a file server. > Btw, many kudos on the improvements since I used to run it (1.0, I > believe). The problem we're having is with file locking over NFS. > rpcinfo on our system shows that lockd is not registered and scanning > briefly over the system shows that there is no 'rpc.lockd'. Am I > missing something? Yeah. There is no PD code for NFS locking (yet -- it's close). > Btw, is there any support in the kernel for RAID? I've noticed reports > on a Compaq? card that handles it transparently. Yeah, there's a Compaq card that handles it transparently. 8-). Doing RAID in the kernel without your own sequencer code (possible on the Adaptec and NCR controllers, but not written) is insane. The overhead would render it nearly unusable. Scratch that, since if you are running anything less than a P90, "nearly" is the wrong adjective. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.