Why Archie.AU doesn't allow NFS mounts

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From: Craig Warren
Date: Thu, 11 Jun 1992 06:02

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I thought people might be interested in this. Archie.AU has
adopted the same attitude.

Regards, Craig


From: Keith Petersen - MACA WSMR <w8sdz@tacom-emh1.army.mil>

Oakland University has decided that remote NFS mounts will not be
allowed because they cause a significantly larger network load.  We
tried it when OAK was first put on the net and found the network was
saturated so bad that regular terminal jobs saw 4-5 second pauses in
output.  There is a lot of information that must be transmitted about
the directory, inodes, and other disk-related data.  FTP doesn't present
this load. 

Right now OAK has a higher FTP throughput than wuarchive, according to
comments received from users.  I believe that is because they allow
remote NFS mounts and OAK doesn't. [Editor: This is true!]

Keith
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From: ccw@deakin.OZ.AU (Craig Warren)
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Subject: Why Archie.AU doesn't allow NFS mounts
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