Re: NFS Performance between Linux and OSF1

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From: Andrew Gallatin
Date: Wed, 03 Jul 1996 00:00

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In article <werme.836329775@alingo.zk3.dec.com>,
Eric Werme <werme@zk3.dec.com> wrote:
>WEILL Philippe <philippe.weill@aero.jussieu.fr> writes:
>
>>When I use my OSF1 box as a server for my linux (i586) box 
>>,performance is pretty bad

<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.

Drew

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From: gallatin@davinci.isds.duke.edu (Andrew Gallatin)
Subject: Re: NFS Performance between Linux and OSF1
Date: 1996/07/03
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