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From: Guy Dawson <guy@cuillin.org.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc
Subject: Re: User-space file systems. 	(Re: Linux vs BSD)
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1997 07:18:14 +0000
Organization: Cuillin
Message-ID: <33080636.41C67EA6@cuillin.org.uk>
References: <32DFFEAB.7704@usa.net> <5l20akqffh.fsf@tequila.systemsz.cs.yale.edu> <87sp2z8562.fsf@elanor.acs.ohio-state.edu> <5e5lga$lg6@web.nmti.com> <5e6qd5$ivq@cynic.portal.ca>
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Curt Sampson wrote:
> 
> In article <5e5lga$lg6@web.nmti.com>, Peter da Silva <peter@nmti.com> wrote:
> 
> >By the way, this discussion *has* convinced me that my original assumption
> >that implementing a network file system in user mode would not be horribly
> >inefficient is correct.
> 
> It hasn't convinced me. I am convinced that implementing a user-mode
> NFS on Pentium-class machines is going to be fine on a 10 Mbps
> network, but I didn't need this discussion to convince me of that.

While you may well be able to saturate a 10Mpbs ethernet with a
user mode nfsd, you'll also go a long way to saturating the CPU.

It's the extra CPU load that makes the thing so expensive.

Guy
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