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From: geoff@hinode.East.Sun.COM (Geoff Arnold @ Sun BOS - R.H. coast near the top)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
Subject: Re: Disk Thrashing when using PCDOS standard I/O
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Date: 30 Nov 89 13:42:30 GMT
References: <1989Nov29.160129.4924@val.com>
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In article <1989Nov29.160129.4924@val.com> ben@val.com (Ben Thornton) writes:
-We have a few PC's connected via thin ethernet to a Sun 3/60
-running SunOS 3.5.1 that has a separate partition on its SCSI
-hard drive set aside as a file server for the MSDOS users
-using PC-NFS version 3.0.
-
-Whenever someone attempts to use a pipe in a DOS command line with
-their default drive set to an NFS drive, the server's disk will
-begin thrashing, and depending on the length of the data stream,
-will tie up a large part of the network bandwith for a long period
-of time.

Fixed in 3.0.1, which has been shipping since the summer. Call
Sun's CSD for an upgrade.

Geoff Arnold, PCDS Group,     | Quote of the week: "Shut up and mind your
Sun Microsystems Inc.         | Canadian business, you meddlesome foreigner."
Internet: geoff@East.Sun.COM  | (Theodore A.Kaldis, <kaldis@topaz.rutgers.edu>
Disclaimer: Obviously....     | on Nov. 22 1989, in reply to Joe Nunes.)


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