Author: Warner Losh Date: To: Piete Brooks CC: Christoph Lameter, exim-users Subject: Re: NFS Problem in Kernel 2.0.27: inode status not updated
In message <E0vfAuO-00070C-00@???> Piete Brooks writes:
: > Does BSDI now have lockd?
:
: Pass -- don't have any BSDI systems....
: Only Linux, DEC Unix, DEC Ultrix, HP-UX, IRIX, SunOS 4 and SunOS 5.
FreeBSD does, I don't know about BSDi. I think they do too.
However, sun has produced a nearly infinite stream of lockd's that it
is almost impossible to interoperate with them successfully :-(. It
is a hard problem with all kinds of nasty races in it, so I'm told.
Basically, you can't reliably lock a file on an NFS mounted system. :-(
