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From: mjr@hussar.dco.dec.com (Marcus J. Ranum)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: Will prestoserve help a client
Message-ID: <1991Mar11.213800.7596@decuac.dec.com>
Date: 11 Mar 91 21:38:00 GMT
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Organization: Digital Equipment Corp., Washington Ultrix Resource Center
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puglia@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu writes:
>Will prestoserve help improve NFS performance if it is 
>installed on a client?  My gut reaction is no, but  
>DEC presales claims that it might.  Who is right?

	Nope. It might improve other client file-system I/O (writing file
system meta-data) but it won't help the client do NFS.

mjr.