Subject: Re: vnode changes & 1.4E
To: None <current-users@netbsd.org>
From: Aaron J. Grier <agrier@poofy.goof.com>
List: current-users
Date: 07/07/1999 20:24:34
On Wed, Jul 07, 1999 at 08:08:59PM -0700, Bill Studenmund wrote:
> Right now the only filesystems which are unchanged are unionfs and nfs.
> nfs does no locking right now, and adding it would be a big mess.
How big of a mess?
> We need to, but I don't have time.
No kidding... even linux does NFS locking nowadays. ;)
The only reason I haven't shifted my mail spool over to my NetBSD/pmax
machine is that I'm paranoid about locking.
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Aaron J. Grier | "Not your ordinary poofy goof." | agrier@poofy.goof.com
"I really admire your perverse mastery of the SPARC branch delay slot,
Dave. Or is it your mastery of the perverse branch delay slot?"
-- Joe Martin to Dave S. Miller on linux-kernel