(was slashes, now NFS devices)
Robert Thurlow
thurlow at convex.com
Sat Mar 9 02:47:56 AEST 1991
In <1991Mar3.225844.8814 at panix.uucp> zink at panix.uucp (David Zink) writes:
>>>And to Unix users, NFS is not stateless. What is rpc.lockd used for?
>>Whew! Where did this come from? NFS is stateless. The locking gunk is
>This came from NFS, bozo.
The locking protocol is separate from the NFS protocol. The only thing
they share is that they both use 'filehandles'. One of the differences
I see is that the locking protocol doesn't have bugs in it that I know
of. NFS does, but some vendors have managed to build pretty good NFS
servers, while the world is still apparently waiting on a decent lock
manager. Perhaps you could describe the 'deeper' relationship between
NFS and the lock manager to me? But be careful: I've worked with this
code, so I won't have your naive perspective.
>Next time post to comp.sun.advocacy
As opposed to comp.unix.misinformed, where I read this?
>And if NFS is 'good' because its 'successful' I suppose you'll insist that
>MS-DOS is better than Sun-OS?
It's a better tool for some things. Get a brain and come down from
your ivory tower, or produce code that does all of what NFS does better.
Rob T
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