Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!mailrus!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!JESSICA.STANFORD.EDU!morgan From: morgan@JESSICA.STANFORD.EDU Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk Subject: Re: PhoneNet and file service Message-ID: Date: 14 Nov 88 17:10:46 GMT References: <8811112217.AA25540@dsunx1> Sender: usenet@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 20 wnn@dsunx1.dsrd.ornl.gov (W. N. Naegeli) writes: > [Very good material about CDEVs and INITs on the startup floppy > versus the server volume.] > Setting a pretty big RAM cache is particularly beneficial on LocalTalk > since it can drastically reduce network traffic and delays. 3Com's 3+Mac appears to disable the use of RAM-caching on the file server volumes, I assume because data on the file server volume might be changed at any time by other users, so the cached data might be obsolete. Even a volume which is read-only to me isn't cached, because it might not be read-only to others. I figured it was just part of the price for server access. Do other file services (Tops, AppleShare) permit a client Mac to cache file server data? - RL "Bob" Morgan Networking Systems Stanford