NFS mounting from Macs

[Dave Wells]

In article <415 at wizard.UUCP> john at wizard.UUCP (John Danner) writes:
>Can someone explain to me why a Mac using the same hard drive as a Sun386i
>might be significantly slower as an NFS server?  There seems to be a 
>significantly longer amount of time needed to transfer large files or to
>save a large file under emacs, etc.  I have heard something like A/UX's
...

The method used to prepare the disk for A/UX use is very important to
the performance of any drive.  I take it you've already tried and experienced
poor performance?  The most common pitfall in preparing HDs for A/UX use
has to be the mkfs command.  What options did you specify? 
Be _very_ careful with the gap parameter  It defaults to 7 and can kill
disk performance. 

-Dave

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