From owner-freebsd-current Sat Apr 19 01:19:43 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id BAA01999 for current-outgoing; Sat, 19 Apr 1997 01:19:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nlsystems.com (nlsys.demon.co.uk [158.152.125.33]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id BAA01991 for ; Sat, 19 Apr 1997 01:19:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from herring.nlsystems.com (herring.nlsystems.com [10.0.0.2]) by nlsystems.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id JAA05273; Sat, 19 Apr 1997 09:19:04 +0100 (BST) Date: Sat, 19 Apr 1997 09:19:04 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson To: "Brian N. Handy" cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NFS comments In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 18 Apr 1997, Brian N. Handy wrote: > >Some of the kernel fixes are relavent to 2.2 and all the user fixes are > >relavent. I was planning to let them soak for a few days in current > >before updating the 2.2 branch. > > Once this makes it to 2.2, I could start using it...is there a place where > the unwashed masses such as myself could learn the cosmetic differences > between v2 and v3? The best place is rfc1813. I think that you might find some more readable information from Sun's web site. The main difference between v2 and v3 is the v3 has a more advanced write protocol, allowing better write performance, still with a stateless server. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 951 1891