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From: tmb@ai.mit.edu (Thomas M. Breuel)
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Subject: Slow NFS writes
Keywords: Networks
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NFS writes are much slower than NFS reads. Is there any way of speeding up
NFS writes under SunOS?  I believe the poor NFS write performance is due
to synchronous acknowledgements of the writes from the server. I have
heard that in some versions of NFS, one can get the server to acknowledge
immediately rather than after the actual disk write (with an obvious but
probably small risk of disk file corruption when the server goes down). Is
this possible under SunOS?

					Thanks, Thomas.  
					tmb@ai.mit.edu