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From: rob@genrad.UUCP (Robert S. Wood)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: letter from DEC
Message-ID: <8588@felix.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 9-Oct-87 12:54:37 EDT
Article-I.D.: felix.8588
Posted: Fri Oct  9 12:54:37 1987
Date-Received: Mon, 12-Oct-87 19:26:31 EDT
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Organization: GenRad, Inc., Concord, Mass.
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Keywords: NFS
Approved: zemon@felix.UUCP (Art Zemon)

2.0 is much slower than 1.2 was.  It has much more code to handle the
NFS and YP.  Everything is slower.  It would be nice if you were not
using YP that your directory searches could be faster, but they are not.
And NFS is anything but ROBUST.  Example.  3 vaxen share nfs files systems
one on each remotely mounted to the other two.  Users home directories are
on hard file-systems, most NFS systems are for reading purposes.  If one
of the 3 vaxen goes down, a user can not do a pwd on his vax in his home
directory until the other vax is back.  Some programs, like emacs also will
just hang waiting.  Not very robust.  We have all-but-stopped using NFS
until it is fixed.