Messages in this thread | | | From | (John E. Davis) | Subject | Re: Linux-1.3.88 - Code Freeze | Date | 13 Apr 1996 21:06:58 GMT |
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On Sat, 13 Apr 1996 17:02:12 +0300 (EET DST), Linus Torvalds <torvalds@cs.helsinki.fi> wrote: : The code-freeze means that I once more enter "bug-fixes only" mode, and : don't even try to send me new features (I'd hate to fall for them ;-). : There are obviously things we could do better (write-side NFS caching : etc), but believe it or not, there is life after 2.0 too..
Is the lack of ``write-side NFS caching'' the reason that writing to an NFS mounted disk is slow by about a factor of 2 compared with other versions of Unix? (This is with a 1.3.79 kernel).
Thanks, -- John E. Davis Center for Space Research/AXAF Science Center 617-258-8119 MIT 37-662c, Cambridge, MA 02139 http://space.mit.edu/~davis
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