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From: weiser.pa@Xerox.COM
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: NFS performance: a question
Message-ID: <11658@brl-adm.ARPA>
Date: 5 Feb 88 17:25:07 GMT
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One reason writing through NFS is slower than reading is that writes commit to
the disk while reads can be buffered.  This is a feature of NFS, that when a
'write' returns you know the bits are really magnetically rotating (or equiv)
somewhere, but slows down writes. 

-mark