Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2011 16:16:46 -0500 (EST) From: Rick Macklem <rmacklem@uoguelph.ca> To: perryh@pluto.rain.com Cc: perryh@pluto.rain.com, marek sal <marek_sal@wp.pl>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, milu@dat.pl, jyavenard@gmail.com Subject: Re: NFSv4 - how to set up at FreeBSD 8.1 ? Message-ID: <2047622233.213674.1294348606324.JavaMail.root@erie.cs.uoguelph.ca> In-Reply-To: <201101060804.56205.jhb@freebsd.org>
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> > > > Not according to what I remember of the SunOS NFS documentation, > > which indicated that the driving force behind using UDP instead of > > TCP was to have the server be _completely_ stateless. (Of course > > locking is inherently stateful; they made it very clear that the > > locking protocol was considered to be an adjunct rather than part > > of the NFS protocol itself.) > When I said I recalled that they didn't do TCP because of excessive overhead, I forgot to mention that my recollection could be wrong. Also, I suspect you are correct w.r.t. the above statement. (ie. Sun's official position vs something I heard.) Anyhow, appologies if I gave the impression that I was correcting your statement. My intent was just to throw out another statement that I vaguely recalled someone an Sun stating. rick
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