Date: Sun, 8 Mar 1998 20:21:22 -0700 From: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: dyson@FreeBSD.ORG, karpen@ocean.campus.luth.se, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Okay, -current should be conditionally safe to use Message-ID: <199803090321.UAA14280@mt.sri.com> In-Reply-To: <199803090301.UAA15987@usr08.primenet.com> References: <199803080012.TAA00282@dyson.iquest.net> <199803090301.UAA15987@usr08.primenet.com>
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[ NFS performance ] > > It probably isn't a good idea to use softupdates in production yet. However, > > another interesting thing to try is: > > > > sysctl -w vfs.nfs.async=1 > > > > on the server. This is better (safer) than softupdates, but you *can* > > have data lossage, due to writes not being committed to disk. It is > > a good idea to have a UPS when using the above option. > > Note: it is a technical violation of the NFS protocol specification > for an NFS server to ACK a write which has not been commited to > stable storage. Note: Many commercial OS's have this turned on by default, including SUN at one point. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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