Subj : EtherDFS and record locking is no-go for BBSs
To   : All
From : j0HNNY a1PHA
Date : Tue Feb 27 2024 15:35:17

I kow this was the general consensus, but I reached out to the author of
mTCP for this question: can I use etherDFS for a multi-node BBS?

His answer:

"I'm not entirely sure of what you had in mind, but in general DOS just
sees this as a local hard drive or a RAM drive.  As far as DOS is
concerned it's not a network device.You can use SHARE.EXE to coordinate
several programs (a parent process and a child process) on the same
machine accessing the same file, but you can't safely share a network
drive that is read-write with another machine.  Sharing is only safe when
looking at things read-only because even with SHARE, one machine changing
the FAT can ruin it for the other machine."

I'm moving on to MSCLIENT...

But I'd much rather use mTCP (for TCP/IP) and XFS (for NFS v2) under MSDOS
6.22, but not sure how to "share" the packet driver? I've seen PKTMUX
mentioned, but it seems like the use case is DOS + Win3.11 packet drivers.

I've been down the VOGONS rabbit hole trying to dig up answers, but maybe
I'm approaching this problem wrongly -- how to have TCIP and NFS (or SMB)
on DOS at the same time (RIP conventional memory)?

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