Re: RFC 1037 NFILE implementations around?

On Mon, 29 Sep 2008 19:06:45 +0200, Andreas Davour
<anteRUN@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Tim Bradshaw <tfb+google@xxxxxxxx> writes:

On Sep 29, 5:23 pm, Andreas Davour <ante...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Did the VLM drop support for the LMFS? Too bad. NFS sucks so it couldn't
be worse than that.

I forget when, but I remember benchmarking (I think) a 3670 which had
slower performance to its local disk than a 3/120 did accessing
storage over NFS. (Both disks were Fuji eagles, the NFS access was via
a 3/180 or /280 and thickwire).

Yup, NFS sucks all right.

I have no idea what a 3/120 is.

A Sun 3 workstation. It was a relatively low powered 68020 system,
woefully short of RAM but with a fast network interface. I can attest
that NFS from a 3/120 to a fast server was frequently faster than
local file access.

I don't recall the 3/120 being offered generally though ... I thought
Sun only sold that particular version to colleges.


Talking about I/O performance in detail is a big can of worms, since it
means subtle interaction between hardware and software.

Yup. Waste of time unless you can isolate the component you're
talking about.

George
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