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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!news.physics.uiowa.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!lll-winken.llnl.gov!venus.sun.com!news2me.EBay.Sun.COM!engnews2.Eng.Sun.COM!peyto!thurlow 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 Lines: 25 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <4de3ml$naq@engnews2.Eng.Sun.COM> References: <4cmopu$d35@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> <4d43bt$es8@park.uvsc.edu> <4d5vhg$38p@mail.fwi.uva.nl> <4dbun0$j2f@park.uvsc.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: peyto.eng.sun.com Cc: Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:1834 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:1966 comp.unix.solaris:56599 comp.unix.aix:68172 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 -- Rob Thurlow, thurlow@eng.sun.com There was something fishy about the butler. I think he was a Pisces, probably working for scale. -- Nick Danger, Third Eye