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Subject: Re: Slow disk write speeds over network
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Pedram Nimreezi wrote:
> I'm sorry I don't mean to be vague but I just get a bit tired of reading 
> 40 posts on NFS itself...

I haven't seen a lot of list traffic about NFS.

> I have never once used NFS and don't see the need for it, but if one 
> feels there is a need.  Identify the causality... I need to integrate
 > a shared medium with 100+ computers because ...

1. You want to share filesystems like user home directories, project work areas, 
etc among all of those client machines without having to copy all of the files 
(can resyncronize them, make room on each local drive, etc)...?

-Chuck