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From: allyn@sdd.hp.com (Allyn Fratkin)
Newsgroups: alt.sys.sun,comp.protocols.misc
Subject: Re: Surprising Workstation Swap Behavior
Message-ID: <1990Jun17.055932.18017@sdd.hp.com>
Date: 17 Jun 90 05:59:32 GMT
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In article <1990Jun4.230343.2796@cbnewsh.att.com>, wcs@cbnewsh.att.com (Bill Stewart 201-949-0705 erebus.att.com!wcs) writes:
> 	One thing I've wondered about for a while is how much you
> 	really need writes to be synchronous.  ...
> 
> 	Perhaps it's time to consider "sloppy-mode NFS", which lets
> 	the server cheat on write-acks.

hp-ux already has this option for nfs on hp-ux 6.2 (i think) and later.  
in the /etc/exports file, there is a -async option that can be applied to 
any file systems.  this causes the server to immediately ack write requests 
but write the data asynchronously.  we use it all the time and it works great.

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