Re: Linux-1.3.88 - Code Freeze

John E. Davis (davis@space.mit.edu)
13 Apr 1996 21:06:58 GMT

On Sat, 13 Apr 1996 17:02:12 +0300 (EET DST), Linus Torvalds <torvalds@cs.helsinki.fi>
wrote:
: The code-freeze means that I once more enter "bug-fixes only" mode, and
: don't even try to send me new features (I'd hate to fall for them ;-).
: There are obviously things we could do better (write-side NFS caching
: etc), but believe it or not, there is life after 2.0 too..

Is the lack of ``write-side NFS caching'' the reason that writing to an NFS
mounted disk is slow by about a factor of 2 compared with other versions of
Unix? (This is with a 1.3.79 kernel).

Thanks,

-- 
John E. Davis                   Center for Space Research/AXAF Science Center
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