[Box Backup] backup on nfs-mounted storage

James O'Gorman boxbackup@fluffy.co.uk
Thu, 19 Oct 2006 19:29:51 +0100


Martin Ebourne wrote:
> What does BSD do about file locking over NFS?

Not sure about Open/Net, but FreeBSD uses rpc.lockd(8) (usually with
rpc.statd(8))
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=rpc.lockd&apropos=0&sektion=8

James