Re: NFS Performance between Linux and OSF1

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From: Andrew Gallatin
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 1996 00:00

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In article <slrn4u681n.2t0.mark@hunter.mas.org>,
Mark Swanson <mark@bugless.com> wrote:
>On 3 Jul 1996 16:01:53 GMT, Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@davinci.isds.duke.edu> wrote:
>><snip>
>>>4) Implement NFS V3 on Linux.  :-)
>>>   V3 supports safe asynchronous writes and fixes the V2 write performance
>>>   problem the right way.  Over FDDI, we can get V3 writes at 6 MB/sec
>>>   without Presto (but with striped disks).
>>>
>>
>>Or switch from Linux to an OS that already has a working NFS V3
>>implementation ;-)  NetBSD-current and Solaris/x86 are two good
>>choices. Plus NetBSD will run your existing Linux binaries.
>>
>NetBSD doesn't run ELF executables, only a.out. a.out is obsolete and hasn't
>been touched in a long time. The a.out libraries are unsupported.

NetBSD-current (1.2Beta), does NFSv3 & NFSv2 and runs Linux elf &
a.out binaries.  You're thinking of NetBSD-1.1 which does only NFSv2
and runs Linux a.out binaries.

Cheers,

Drew

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From: gallatin@diego.isds.duke.edu (Andrew Gallatin)
Subject: Re: NFS Performance between Linux and OSF1
Date: 1996/07/10
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