Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!pyramid!sas From: sas@pyrps5 (Scott Schoenthal) Newsgroups: comp.sys.pyramid Subject: Re: NFS/RPC services on Pyramid Message-ID: <17787@pyramid.pyramid.com> Date: 28 Mar 88 18:42:23 GMT Sender: daemon@pyramid.pyramid.com Reply-To: sas@pyrps5.pyramid.com (Scott Schoenthal) Organization: Pyramid Technology Corp., Mountain View, CA Lines: 31 In article <1679@polyslo.UUCP> jeff@polyslo.UUCP (Jeff Weinstein) writes: > > Another thing that I would like to see is the yellowpages. I know that >the yellowpages is perhaps not the best answer, but in some cases it does >do the trick. Would anyone at Pyramid care to comment on the possible >availability of yellowpages, as well as the lock daemons? The question of Yellow Pages support has come up many times. We are currently in the process of determining the content of the next couple of OSx releases. It is recognized that Yellow Pages is important in a Sun/NFS environment. The question now is in prioritization of features for the upcoming releases. To influence the decision-making, I would suggest contacting your salesperson. As far as the lock daemon goes, the issues are mainly technical. The most recent version of the lock manager that we have (based upon the 3.2/4.3 Sun NFS source) has many problems. Supposedly, there is a fixed version which has been provided with SunOS 3.5 that fixes some of the problems we have seen. I did see a posting this morning in one of the news groups that indicated that there are still problems with the "fixed" lock manager in SunOS 3.5. We have been working on a version of the lock manager that fixes many of the problems that we have encountered. This version is not yet ready for customer shipment -- it is currently hoped that it can be scheduled in one of the upcoming releases. If you are interested in being a Beta test site for the lock manager, please contact your salesperson. sas #include ---- Scott Schoenthal sas@pyrps5.pyramid.com Pyramid Technology Corp.