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From: kenw@noah.arc.ab.ca (Ken Wallewein)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: Re: MacNFS vs AppleShare
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Date: 13 Nov 90 14:50:00 GMT
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  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.

  If I recall correctly, Tops has (or had) the same limitation, and that
the lack of necessary licking facilities was the reason behind its highly
publicised data base corruption problem.

/kenw