sandel@tuvalu.SW.MCC.COM (Charles Sandel) (03/25/88)
Our network environment is such that we use a Pyramid 98x
as a "fileserver" for about 68 Sun workstations (Sun-3/{50,140,160,260,280}).
The Pyramid provides its news partition (along with other partitions)
as an NFS filesystem to all of the Suns. We have noted the
lack of rpc.statd and rpc.lockd on the Pyramid to provide locking
services on NFS filesystems. Has anyone else bemoaned this
omission? I have questioned the Pyramid Sales person about this.
He says there are no plans to provide statd or lockd.
I feel this is a grave omission, given that Pyramid is shipping
NFS, supports RPC and also OEM's Sun workstations.
If you have a Pyramid and are running NFS, I would like to urge
you to bring this to Pyramid's attention.
Charles Sandel
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All I want is to be free from desire.jeff@polyslo.UUCP (Jeff Weinstein) (03/28/88)
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? Jeff Weinstein Computer Systems Lab Cal Poly State Univ. jeff@polyslo.uucp ucbvax!voder!polyslo!jeff
bob@allosaur.cis.ohio-state.edu (Bob Sutterfield) (03/28/88)
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. Whenever we get our Pyramid and Sun sources, and when MIT releases Kerberos and Hesiod, we're going to be looking into those as well. It's not clear which will happen first: Pyramid releases YP, MIT releases their stuff, or we get our source distributions. It's a race to the finish :-) -=- Bob Sutterfield, Department of Computer and Information Science The Ohio State University; 2036 Neil Ave. Columbus OH USA 43210-1277 bob@cis.ohio-state.edu or ...!cbosgd!osu-cis!bob
sas@pyrps5 (Scott Schoenthal) (03/29/88)
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 <disclaimer.h> ---- Scott Schoenthal sas@pyrps5.pyramid.com Pyramid Technology Corp.