NFS/RPC services on Pyramid

[Scott Schoenthal]

In article <1679 at polyslo.UUCP> jeff at polyslo.UUCP (Jeff Weinstein) writes:
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>  Another thing that I would like to see is the yellowpages.  I know that
>the yellowpages is perhaps not the best answer, but in some cases it does
>do the trick.  Would anyone at Pyramid care to comment on the possible
>availability of yellowpages, as well as the lock daemons?

The question of Yellow Pages support has come up many times.  We are currently
in the process of determining the content of the next couple of OSx releases.
It is recognized that Yellow Pages is important in a Sun/NFS environment.  The
question now is in prioritization of features for the upcoming releases.  To
influence the decision-making, I would suggest contacting your salesperson.

As far as the lock daemon goes, the issues are mainly technical.  The most
recent version of the lock manager that we have (based upon the 3.2/4.3
Sun NFS source) has many problems.  Supposedly, there is a fixed version which
has been provided with SunOS 3.5 that fixes some of the problems we have seen.
I did see a posting this morning in one of the news groups that indicated that
there are still problems with the "fixed" lock manager in SunOS 3.5.

We have been working on a version of the lock manager that fixes many of the
problems that we have encountered.  This version is not yet ready for customer
shipment -- it is currently hoped that it can be scheduled in one of the
upcoming releases.  If you are interested in being a Beta test site for the
lock manager, please contact your salesperson.

sas

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Scott Schoenthal   sas at pyrps5.pyramid.com	Pyramid Technology Corp.