Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1998 15:38:40 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@u.washington.edu> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, FreeBSD-chat <freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Diskless Workstations Message-ID: <199811302338.PAA06488@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 30 Nov 1998 12:06:08 PST." <Pine.BSF.4.05.9811301155550.419-100000@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu>
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> >> It seems that running diskless has a serious advantage of using the same > >> disk space for all of the programs that all the users need. 100baseT can > >> compete with UW-SCSI bit for bit on bandwidth. > > > >No it can't. And NFS doesn't compete for latency. But many users > >don't need that sort of filesystem throughput. > > If 100 Mbps => 80 Mbps then 100bT is as good or better than UW-SCSI on > bandwidth. This is what I based my statement on. It appears that I have a > concept error somehow. The numbers look right to me. Can someone steer me > straight? Mb != MB. Wide SCSI at 40MHz gives 80MB/sec. 100Mbps ethernet may give you as much as 9MB/sec over NFS (if you're very lucky). > Thanks for the insight from all who replied. I sent that email some time > ago. Is the list only now receiving it? No, I'm just working through the backlog that a week at Comdex built up, and attacking some more of my outstanding backlog. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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