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- From: hirai@cc.swarthmore.edu (Eiji Hirai)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
- Subject: Re: Is local caching configurable?
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- Date: 10 Nov 92 19:17:26 GMT
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- mjr@hussar.dco.dec.com (Marcus J. Ranum) writes:
- > Some vendors do what they call "asynchronous NFS" in which
- > the server acks the write *before* it is written to stable
- > storage (usually the server's volatile buffer cache). This
- > violates the protocol
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- Out of morbid curiosity, does any vendor ship their OS like this? If so,
- I'd be more than interested in knowing which. Or do vendors just do this in
- their NFS lab "tests" to spruce up their glossy sales brochures?
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