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- From: mjr@hussar.dco.dec.com (Marcus J. Ranum AXP)
- Subject: Re: Is local caching configurable?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov10.213104.25077@decuac.dec.com>
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- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 21:31:04 GMT
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- hirai@cc.swarthmore.edu (Eiji Hirai) writes:
- >> Some vendors do what they call "asynchronous NFS" in which
- >
- >Out of morbid curiosity, does any vendor ship their OS like this?
-
- I believe that SGI and HP support it as configurable options. I
- don't know offhand if any vendor sells their machine using asynch NFS
- by *default*. That wouldn't be very c00l, in my opinion, but stranger
- things have happened (like shipping a UNIX that comes with UDP checksums
- disabled). I'm not sure what other vendors may support it as configurable
- options. Most of them (I believe) have it as an option in /etc/exports.
-
- There are some cases where asynch NFS might be nice. For /tmp
- or something, it'd be very useful - any data that is "expendable".
-
- mjr.
-