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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: 25 Jan 1996 00:42:38 GMT
Organization: Utah Valley State College, Orem, Utah
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thurlow@peyto.eng.sun.com (Robert Thurlow) wrote:
]
] In article <4dp29j$8v8@park.uvsc.edu>,
] Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> wrote:
]
] >] >Client caching prior to NFSv3 [ ... ]
]
] 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 think it isn't fair to compare V3 on 5.x with V2 on 4.x to be
able to claim better performance. I was restricting the scope
of my statement, not exempting V3 from cache coherency requirements.
Sorry if this was not clear from context.
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.