Re: rpc.lockd and true NFS locks?

2000-12-17 Thread Axel Thimm
On Sat, Dec 16, 2000 at 04:27:20PM -0600, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Dec 16), Axel Thimm said: Wouldn't that mean, that you might cause data corruption if, say, I was to read my mail from a FreeBSD box over an NFS mounted spool directory (running under OSF1 in our case), and I

Re: rpc.lockd and true NFS locks?

2000-12-16 Thread Axel Thimm
Thanks for the fast reply. On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 05:45:15PM -0500, David E. Cross wrote: As for "client" vs. "server", that is quite tricky since WRT NFS locking they are both client and server. The "server" side is done and requires no modifcations to the kernel. However a FreeBSD

rpc.lockd and true NFS locks?

2000-12-14 Thread Axel Thimm
Dear all, rpc.lockd in FreeBSD suffers from a pubic server's lazyness --- It says it's done the job, but never did anything besides talking... Searching through the lists gives different stories. Some say that NFS locking isn't really necessary, but what about locking critical situations like