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From: larryc@puente.jpl.nasa.gov (Larry Carroll)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
Subject: NFS read-only file copies
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Date: 3 May 91 05:13:05 GMT
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In Sun's Network Programming Guide, on page 9, it says
"The flexibility of NFS allows configuration for a variety of cost and 
performance trade-offs. ... In the case of read-only files, copies can 
be kept on several servers to avoid bottlenecks."

However, I've spent a couple of hours reading the table of contents & 
the totally inadequate index & can't find where it tells how to do 
this.  Ditto results for an examination of the System & Network Admin.
Manual.

Is the quoted material a bunch of lying hype?  Or can someone point out 
the part of the manuals where I can read up on this & implement it?
And if this ability is real, do very many other vendors have it, such 
as DEC's Ultrix?