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From: thurlow@peyto.eng.sun.com (Robert Thurlow)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: ISP hardware/software choices (performance comparison)
Date: 15 Jan 1996 17:42:45 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems Computer Corporation
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In article <4dbun0$j2f@park.uvsc.edu>,
Terry Lambert  <terry@lambert.org> wrote:

[that SunOS 4.x is better than SunOS 5.x because:]
>8)	NFS is reliable, does not violate protocol specification.

and further states:

>] What do you mean by this?  In Solaris 2.x as well
>] as SunOS 4.x all server update operations are synchronous.
>] Clients employ write behind in both OSes.

>Server caching, which is not on by default for 5.x.

This is misinformation, as far as I can see, and I invite the
poster to be clear and specific about this.  Sun has at no time
enabled asynchronous writes on the server by default, unlike some
other Unix vendors, and we consider that a good thing.

Rob T
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