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From: karl@triceratops.cis.ohio-state.edu (Karl Kleinpaste)
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Subject: Re: NFS vs RFS (actually, vs Sprite and Andrew)
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Date: 16 Mar 88 16:03:53 GMT
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In-reply-to: bob@allosaur.cis.ohio-state.edu's message of 16 Mar 88 15:42:35 GMT


bob@allosaur.cis.ohio-state.edu writes:
	   Note that this is neither a philosophical problem with NFS,
   nor a Pyramid-specific bug: According to conversations at UNIForum
   with a person from Sun's NFS portability group, all known
   implementations of NFS have this feature.

An addendum on that: The problem is not in all known implementations;
Mark Stein of Sun's NFS development group told us in more recent
releases of NFS, the strategy using /etc/rmtab is no longer current.
I don't recall what the new strategy is that's in place, but the
/etc/rmtab bottleneck is no longer a problem.

[Bob wasn't at UniForum, and those of us who were there evidently
didn't make the point to Bob until now.]