Re: req for advice on using PPP

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From: Peter Honeyman
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1992 16:54

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Ignatios Souvatzis writes:
|> BTW: nfs? You might want to completely avoid it. Try mounting a remote
|>    filesystem to get the feeling. Basically, you have to avoid
|>    anything which does stats because they cause lots of traffic, and
|>    anything which does writes because nfs writes always wait for the
|>    'written to disk' confirmation from the other side.

you have to avoid reads, too.

but afs over dialup is not too bad.  client caching wins.

	peter

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