From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 2 03:12:40 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6AF6816A4CE for ; Wed, 2 Feb 2005 03:12:40 +0000 (GMT) Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.207]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E99C843D53 for ; Wed, 2 Feb 2005 03:12:39 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bkeating@gmail.com) Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 58so483154wri for ; Tue, 01 Feb 2005 19:12:37 -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=NwoAOYjuGpoi39h4F7VRUzi01nE4NQzlg2U2e/rBrilXriTSK9aPC2R7qo84R7NNQyriWVillxyezhQF4Ny+swNMatt9M52cH4RuLlXmW/+0683BKSnhgUCaJ8lz1HuMeN+WdxW/kvxviSuKCF4sjT8+fOegX2jNT4alxhfomKw= Received: by 10.54.28.79 with SMTP id b79mr263353wrb; Tue, 01 Feb 2005 19:12:09 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.54.47.68 with HTTP; Tue, 1 Feb 2005 19:12:09 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <1d54d544050201191276d1eba@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2005 19:12:09 -0800 From: "Benjamin P. Keating" To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org 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-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Benjamin P. Keating" List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2005 03:12:40 -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.