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From: csgr@cs.ru.ac.za (Geoff Rehmet)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: Whats wrong with Linux networking ???
Date: 6 Aug 1994 10:18:19 GMT
Organization: Rhodes University Computing Services
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In <Cu107E.Mz3@curia.ucc.ie> dave@odyssey.ucc.ie writes:
>OK, I keep hearing reference to how Linux networking is not as good
>as FreeBSD and so forth
...
>what I want to know is, can anyone back this up with facts ? What
>exactly doesn't Linux do (or does do, but incorrectly) ?
A major difference I have noticed is that on Linux NFS runs at a
fraction of the speed achieved on FreeBSD. This is mainly due to a far
more simplistic implementation (I didn't compare the code much, but this
is very obvious). Probably a big factor is the absence of the nfsiod
(aka biod in SunOS) in Linux. It might be a good idea to base a
reimplementation on the nqnfs work in 4.4BSD - which implements cache
coherency under NFS via leasing.
Geoff.
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