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From: kdb@macaw.intercon.com (Kurt Baumann)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: Re: MacNFS vs AppleShare
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Date: 13 Nov 90 20:48:54 GMT
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In article <9493*kenw@noah.arc.ab.ca>, kenw@noah.arc.ab.ca (Ken Wallewein)
writes:
>   One thing concerns me about Macs using NFS -- regardless of the method --
> versus those using "true" AppleShare.  I understand that the NFS protocol
> does not support locking by either byte or record.  Is that true?  If so,
> it would seem to make life pretty difficult for applications which need
> that functionality, as for shared write/update access to data bases.

There is a beastie called "lockd" that takes this into account.

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