From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 2 21:54:00 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2840A16A4CE for ; Wed, 2 Feb 2005 21:54:00 +0000 (GMT) Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.199]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A36A843D41 for ; Wed, 2 Feb 2005 21:53:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bkeating@gmail.com) Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 58so125223wri for ; Wed, 02 Feb 2005 13:53:58 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=ayHWEKDT9/Z278kbL8xZ4K93EMlTZ/j4ewDxsa0JHBke9yTN0da6yxGybSkz0AhldrCjsjUUhXl9TFtlruOZgDvljV4Skfn7o9UV82IOsrBm8HrnQerHaT8BSOz9yIAecMi4c18FFI1CUiwZty3cI7i2849ORBE9lr0gnC9PhVA= Received: by 10.54.45.26 with SMTP id s26mr339909wrs; Wed, 02 Feb 2005 13:53:57 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.54.47.68 with HTTP; Wed, 2 Feb 2005 13:53:57 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <1d54d54405020213534aefcf6f@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2005 13:53:57 -0800 From: "Benjamin P. Keating" To: FreeBSD Questions Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: NFS tweaking (mount_nfs and fstab) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Benjamin P. Keating" List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2005 21:54:00 -0000 Hey FreeBSD community, Firstly - Whats the difference between freebsd-questions and freebsd-newbies? Just the level of detail / questions asked? Let me know if I should be posting somewhere besides this list. Ok, so I've been transferring large tar files (60gig+) to a nfs mount (both client and server are on the same LAN and both FreeBSD). Every so often the transfer halts. My NIC is using the `vr` driver so changed to a Intel card using the fxp driver - I'm told this is much more reliable. anyway... Since I'm spending so much time babying this NFS mount, I'd like to tweak it the best I can for fast, reliable read/write access. I googled and found a suggestion of: mount -t nfs -o -r=32768,-w=32768 bigbang:/backup/ad4m1a/tic /backup Can someone tell me if the -r,-w values are sane? Also - assuming those values are correct and make things reliably faster, how would I A). Check to see that these arguments are in action and B). add them to my /etc/fstab? I've assumed the following: bigbang:/backup/ad4m1a/tic /backup nfs rw,-r=32768,-w=32768 0 0 Is this correct? Any NFS experts care to share there knowledge on how to tweak NFS to a solid, fast state.