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- From: pkc@scs.carleton.ca (Peter Choynowski)
- Subject: RFS vs NFS on a 486 ?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug13.205737.27259@cunews.carleton.ca>
- Sender: news@cunews.carleton.ca (News Administrator)
- Organization: School of Computer Science, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
- Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 20:57:37 GMT
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- I have a number of questions about rfs and nfs running on a 486. To
- start with how does rfs compare with nfs wrt. transfer speed ( under
- 2.6 or 3.0, and under a mix of the two ) ? I have done some tests with
- rfs and depending if one uses cp or dd or cat there is a wide range of
- performance one can observe between 3.0 and 2.6.
-
- I have been looking at a way to cross-mount disks on a small lab of
- Mach systems and to get the best performance and functionality. One
- problem I am running into is that with rfs I have not been able to
- access account's home directory upon login ( home gets set to / )
- when that home directory in on another server. Only after the user is
- on the system can he do rfs to authenticate himself to his home
- server. Is there a way to get this resolved with rfs or is nfs my only
- solution ? If nfs is the way to do it is anyone running AMD auto
- mounter under 3.0 ?
-
- I like to hear from anyone that has a small network of systems with
- 'cross-mounted' disks where users can logon to any machine and see
- exactly the same set of disks without having to perform any extra
- steps.
-
- Thanks,
- Peter
-