Subject: Re: statd/lockd
To: Herb Peyerl <hpeyerl@beer.org>
From: Rob Healey <rhealey@kas.helios.mn.org>
List: port-sparc
Date: 11/02/1995 00:36:31
> rhealey@kas.helios.mn.org (Rob Healey) wrote:
> > I've been whining for well over a year on this point and noone thinks
> > it important enough to work on in ANY of the free OS's... B^(.
>
> Maybe it's not the case that "noone thinks it important enough"... Maybe
>
> a) no one knows what the issues are.
> b) everyone knows what the issues are and are therefore afraid to open the can.
> c) no one has the time.
>
> Why don't you look into it? I mean, this is a volunteer effort. People
> only work on what they *want* to work on. I certainly have no interest
> in network file locking so I'm not about to start to work on it.
>
I have. It isn't worth mine, or anybody elses, time by the sound
of things.
> Stop whining, start coding.
>
Don't need to, I have access to 3 commercial OS's doing server work
that already do it well enough to support applications requiring it.
The commercial OS's also best the free OS's in NFS performance
as well. 2 of them cheat by using 4 or more CPU's but that's a
seperate issue...
NOTE: My statement was WELL ENOUGH, not PERFECT support. That's
why I mentioned the "fake it" part in my original post.
One person thought I meant it should deliberately destroy
data no matter what.
The original poster asked if there were any reasons that SunOS 4.1.x
would still be needed and I pointed out that the free OS's don't
to NFS NLM. I've had 5 businesses reject using free OS's due to
this fact so the initial poster might be impacted in the same way.
-Rob