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- From: ckd@eff.org (Christopher Davis)
- Subject: Re: Prestoserv?
- In-Reply-To: rodney@cssc-syd.tansu.com.au's message of 14 Aug 92 04:28:21 GMT
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- References: <1992Aug4.104143.136@csc.canterbury.ac.nz>
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- Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 16:08:41 GMT
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- Rodney> == Rodney Campbell <rodney@cssc-syd.tansu.com.au>
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- Rodney> It does make a difference (only to NFS writes) but how much I
- Rodney> don't know - I have heard figures such as 600% quoted.
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- It also makes a difference to local writes (strictly speaking it *only*
- makes a difference to writes to the Prestoserve'd local disks, including
- NFS clients of the Prestoserve'd machine).
-
- One thing it really speeds up is "rm -rf". Really. (Which can be bad
- if you mistype it as root in the wrong place.)
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