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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.cis.okstate.edu!news.ksu.ksu.edu!lazrus.cca.rockwell.com!cacd.rockwell.com!news-feed-1.peachnet.edu!gatech!newsfeed.internetmci.com!uwm.edu!lll-winken.llnl.gov!venus.sun.com!male.EBay.Sun.COM!engnews2.Eng.Sun.COM!sunlite!pgt From: pgt@sunlite.Eng.Sun.COM (Panos Tsirigotis) 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: 18 Jan 1996 19:52:08 GMT Organization: Sun Lines: 34 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <4dm8d8$30r@engnews2.Eng.Sun.COM> References: <4d9has$qo9@park.uvsc.edu> <4de3db$n6a@engnews2.Eng.Sun.COM> <4depms$bi5@park.uvsc.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: sunlite.eng.sun.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:2035 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:2195 comp.unix.solaris:57734 comp.unix.aix:69120 In article <4depms$bi5@park.uvsc.edu> Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> writes: >thurlow@peyto.eng.sun.com (Robert Thurlow) wrote: >] >] In article <4d9has$qo9@park.uvsc.edu>, >] Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> wrote: >] >] >thurlow@peyto.eng.sun.com (Robert Thurlow) wrote: >] >] >] NFS in 5.x has the same or better consistency guarantees as your >] >] favorite 4.x version. And in 5.5, you get NFS Version 3 and NFS >] >] over TCP, which work so well and so fast I was amazed when I >] >] started here. You're clearly out in left field on this topic. >] >] >Sorry, "the same" is not an argument for change. If you had a >] >tangible "or better", then you'd have a case. >] >] You implied that SunOS 5.x was faster because it played fast and >] loose with consistency guarantees. This is simply untrue, and >] I'm calling you on it; consistency has been tightened up in many >] areas, and not made weaker anywhere. If you believe otherwise, >] please be specific. > >Client caching prior to NFSv3 violates the protocol specification. Please post the relevant section of RFC-1094 (NFS spec) that supports the above assertion. Panos -- Panos Tsirigotis Email: panos.tsirigotis@eng.sun.com Standard disclaimer: I am speaking only for myself, and not for Sun.