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From: Terry Lambert <terry@cs.weber.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: NFS write performance
Date: 12 Jun 1995 21:27:03 GMT
Organization: Utah Valley State College, Orem, Utah
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raj@cup.hp.com (Rick Jones) wrote:
] I'll pick the nit here - the NFS V2 spec mandates "stable storage" but
] (to my knowledge) does not specify the implementation mechanism (nor
] stability characteristics?) of that storage - for example, I do not
] think it explicitly calls for synchronous writes to disc. If the spec
] did, then all those folks using NVRAM caches would also be in
] violation of the spec. Of course, this leads to a considreable,
] periodic thrashing on the topic of "what is stable storage."
Whatever technology you have that your competitor doesn't counts.
Whatever technology your competitor has that you don't, doesn't.
Terry Lambert
terry@cs.weber.edu
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Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
or previous employers.