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From: brian@shift.utell.net (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: 2.2.2 and NFS v3 ?
Date: 3 Jun 1997 14:02:48 GMT
Organization: Awfulhak Ltd.
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In article <5mvgs1$3bi@tooting.netapp.com>,
guy@netapp.com (Guy Harris) writes:
> Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org, brian@utell.co.uk> wrote:
>>I know next to nothing about it, but I believe it supports connection
>>oriented requests and does locking properly.
>
> ...neither of which have anything to do with NFS V3, of course; NFS V2
> "supports connection-oriented requests" in the sense that it can run
> over TCP just as V3 can, and neither NFS V2 nor NFS V3 "do locking" -
> locking is done by a separate protocol.
>
> I.e., presumably the latter two are advantages of more recent versions
> of the NFS implementation in FreeBSD; "NFS V3" isn't an implementation,
> it's a protocol that some NFS implementations support.
Oh, I thought the rpc.lockd stuff was superseeded - shows I was
right though. I don't know anything about it.
> To answer the original poster's:
>
> The NFS V3 spec is RFC 1813 (the NFS V2 spec is RFC 1094).
>
> http://ds.internic.net/ds/dspg0intdoc.html
>
> is a URL for a page that can lead you to RFCs.
Or alternatively get a copy of Connected.master.tgz (or was it
.tar.gz). It's a nice html version of a lot of the tcp
rfcs. Archie'll tell you where to find it.
I don't know offhand if NFSv3 is there though.
--
Brian <brian@awfulhak.org> <brian@freebsd.org>
<http://www.awfulhak.org>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour !