(was slashes, now NFS devices)

[David Zink]

thurlow at convex.com (Robert Thurlow) Chips in:
>>>>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

To you ivory tower egg-heads, NFS is a little protocol, and locking is
another little protocol, and of course they have nothing to do with
one another.

But nobody in the previous conversation said 'protocol'.  We were all
talking about NFS the method of remote mounting filesystems.  If NFS
the stateless protocol needs locking to emulate real fileystems effectively
then locking is a part of NFS.

Trying ordering NFS from a vendor.  See whether they send you a protocol
or an implementation.

-- David