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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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: 14 Jan 1996 00:04:43 GMT
Organization: Utah Valley State College, Orem, Utah
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thurlow@peyto.eng.sun.com (Robert Thurlow) wrote:
[ ... on the benefits of Solaris ... ]
] 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.
For NFS V3, there is the University of Guelph code. Admittedly,
this isn't a big win for Solaris, since the kernel multithreading
syncronization model for file system authors isn't well documented
(hell, it's not documented at all).
But it's relatively trivial (ie: all grunt work, no suprises) to
drop a new file system into a SunOS 4.x box. The NFS over TCP
code (which by the way, interferes with multihoming hosts in
5.x version, since the source interface is not guaranteed) is
available as part of the UofG code.
Regards,
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.