On Wed, 21 Apr 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote: > : > :I would just like to say, that unlike certain zealots of other operating > :systems I've always been a bit hesitant to recommend FreeBSD over > :solaris because of this one factor (NFS). > : > :It now seems I can't think of a single reason, (I'm much more a > :cluster fan than an SMP fan) SMP just doesn't buy you enough to > :justify putting all your eggs in one basket... > : > :-Alfred > > Heh. We still do not have file locking over NFS. That's a major piece. > In general, though, I think FreeBSD's NFS is shaping up pretty well. It > is certainly much, much better then any other OS out there except > solaris.
File locking over a stateless filesystem is just plain icky. Supposedly someone is working on client side locking, and I definetly will take a look at it just out of interest, not that i think i have a chance of implementing it. -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
