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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: 25 Jan 1996 06:45:46 GMT
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In article <4e6jlu$4rd@park.uvsc.edu>,
Terry Lambert  <terry@lambert.org> wrote:

>thurlow@peyto.eng.sun.com (Robert Thurlow) wrote:

>] What makes you think that client caching in NFS V3 is suddenly and
>] miraculously legal according to the spec?  Cache consistency has
>] improved, but it isn't made perfect by any particular operation.

>I don't think that.  See my post quoting the Usenix papers.

I saw; you quoted the NFS V2 spec, and drew incorrect inferences
from it.  Oh well.

>I think it isn't fair to compare V3 on 5.x with V2 on 4.x to be
>able to claim better performance.

Well, you'll have to figure out how to measure this, since I
don't have enough spare time to backport V3 to 4.x.

Rob T
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