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From: saddison@ca.excelan.com (Skip Addison)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: Re: NFS Support in NetWare
Message-ID: <1991Mar8.145430.15208@novell.com>
Date: 9 Mar 91 06:52:20 GMT
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References: <1991Mar7.074317.26918@novell.com> <tb.668418489@elwood>
Date: Fri, 8 Mar 1991 14:54:30 GMT

In article <tb.668418489@elwood> tb@Materna.DE (Torsten Beyer) writes:
> ...
>Granted, BUT usually files don't get accessed first byte, last byte, second
>byte, middle byte. Usually it's more or less in a sequential manner. This
>...

As Unix machines increasingly move into the business world, they're
increasingly running database applications.  Random I/O with seeks all
over the place is the norm for these applications.

-- Skip