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- From: ckd@eff.org (Christopher Davis)
- Subject: Re: NFS Performance?
- In-Reply-To: guy@Auspex.COM's message of 11 Nov 92 22:35:58 GMT
- Message-ID: <CKD.92Nov11211123@loiosh.eff.org>
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- Organization: Electronic Frontier Foundation Tech Central
- References: <1992Nov9.190220.12769@shearson.com> <4273@cvbnetPrime.COM>
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- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 02:11:26 GMT
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- Guy> == Guy Harris <guy@Auspex.COM>
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- Guy> on the BSD file system, "create", "unlink", etc. are to be thought
- Guy> of as write requests, as they involve writes to the disk, and
- Guy> those writes are done synchronously (even if the requests *don't*
- Guy> come from NFS).
-
- This means that rm, especially rm -r, performance is much greater with a
- PrestoServe installed. This may or may not be construed as a feature
- (especially if you tend to forget what directory you're in when you're
- running as root :).
-
- (But it does mean that if you have PrestoServe on your news machine,
- expire will probably run much, MUCH faster...)
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