Re: IFS vs Windows file serving

[Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I apologise if I sounded flip.  Being a system i bigot, it is hard for 
me to accept the idea that others do anything better/faster.


rob@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Actually I think his explanation was outstanding.  Especially the tips 
> about tuning the run time characteristics of the server jobs.
> What else could it be?
> Well, I am not technical enough to reverse engineer the NetServer code to 
> see if the code is less efficient than Windows.
> Perhaps it was the onboard processor of using a Windows IXS card to handle 
> just file serving.  Would that be like having a dedicated IOP just for 
> NetServer?
> Bus thingy?  I don't think so.  I've heard that iSCSI can even be a better 
> performer than IXS for this kind of file serving.
>
> Rob Berendt