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To: Charles Henrich <henrich@sigbus.com>
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Subject: Re: Filesystem tuning (minimize seeks) 
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Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 13:07:08 -0800
From: John Hanley <jh@yahoo-inc.com>
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Don't use NFS, as NFS v2 clients tend to roughly do fsync() after
sending each block over the wire, and NFS v3 clients roughly fsync()
at file close.  Send the data over TCP connections to a server that
has mounted the filesystem using Soft Updates.


	Cheers,
	JH


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