From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 13 23:28:37 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E8C6106564A for ; Sat, 13 Mar 2010 23:28:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from joe@netmusician.org) Received: from mail.netmusician.org (dorian.netmusician.org [66.244.95.101]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F7858FC1A for ; Sat, 13 Mar 2010 23:28:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by mail.netmusician.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3BBCB88A for ; Sat, 13 Mar 2010 18:22:52 -0500 (EST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at netmusician.org Received: from mail.netmusician.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (dorian.netmusician.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with ESMTP id szM94itOzHMq for ; Sat, 13 Mar 2010 18:22:52 -0500 (EST) Received: from Shakti.local (c-67-176-145-181.hsd1.in.comcast.net [67.176.145.181]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.netmusician.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 204CBB874 for ; Sat, 13 Mar 2010 18:22:52 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <4B9C1E4B.9090507@netmusician.org> Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2010 18:22:51 -0500 From: Joe Auty User-Agent: Postbox 1.1.2 (Macintosh/20100308) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <4B9C1D41.5000007@netmusician.org> In-Reply-To: <4B9C1D41.5000007@netmusician.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.96.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Re: fstab NFS mount option recommendations X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2010 23:28:37 -0000 Forgot to add, I also need to do some NFS mounts from my VM host which is hosted on CentOS. I know that this isn't a Linux based list, but if you could kindly keep the information about wsize and rsize numbers general enough so that I can apply this knowledge to my Linux box, that would be great :) A lot of online resources I've come across suggest using various numbers, but I don't really understand how these number are derived or if they are even necessary at all... Joe Auty wrote: > Hello, > > I'm presenting NFS shares to some FreeBSD VM guests with the following > mount options (from my /etc/fstab): > > nfsserverip:mymount /mountdir nfs > rw,tcp,intr,noatime,nfsv3,-w=32768,-r=32768 0 0 > > > This seems to work well, except I have to manually load MySQL, Apache, > and Postfix at boot time, as my /usr/local directory is hosted on my > NFS share on this test server (these start up normally when /usr/local > resides on a local hard drive). Is it generally a bad idea to host a > share like this on NFS? I'm thinking that it probably is and am happy > to serve this locally if this would be better. However, if this is not > a red flag and there is a way to get these services to start up on > their own at boot, could you please let me know? > > How about the wsize and rsize numbers? I was unable to find any > resources for determining what these numbers best be set as for > FreeBSD as a VM guest. Any pointers? > > > > > Thanks in advance for your help! > > > -- > Joe Auty, NetMusician > NetMusician helps musicians, bands and artists create beautiful, > professional, custom designed, career-essential websites that are easy > to maintain and to integrate with popular social networks. > www.netmusician.org > joe@netmusician.org > -- Joe Auty, NetMusician NetMusician helps musicians, bands and artists create beautiful, professional, custom designed, career-essential websites that are easy to maintain and to integrate with popular social networks. www.netmusician.org joe@netmusician.org