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From: drechsau@nospam.visi.com (Mike Horwath)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: NFS locking in FreeBSD
Date: 20 Jun 1997 01:18:10 GMT
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Alan Judge <Alan.Judge@indigo.ie> wrote:
: What's the current status (if any) of NFS locking in FreeBSD?  Last I heard,
: FreeBSD didn't have NFS locking.  Is this still true?

: This might be a show-stopper for us in a new project using a NetApp filer
: as a backend.

Last time I tried this, I got panic'ed :)

But that was months ago, I am sure they got it working by now.

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