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Date:      Mon, 6 Mar 2000 09:28:11 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>
To:        "Karsten W. Rohrbach" <karsten@rohrbach.de>
Cc:        Mattias Pantzare <pantzer@ludd.luth.se>, Edwin Mons <e.mons@spcgroup.nl>, =?iso-8859-1?Q?Administra=E7=E3o_MailBR?= <mailbr@mailbr.com.br>, freebsd-fs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: NFS: Linux Client and BSD Server
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003060926400.8714-100000@salmon.nlsystems.com>
In-Reply-To: <20000306064734.A61425@rohrbach.de>

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On Mon, 6 Mar 2000, Karsten W. Rohrbach wrote:

> Mattias Pantzare(pantzer@ludd.luth.se)@Thu, Jan 20, 2000 at 05:02:25PM +0100:
> > > When I did this while using an NFS (BSD <-> BSD) the speed went up to 1
> > > MB/sec (on 10baseT).  Theoretical maximum for 10 Mbit ethernet :-)
> > 
> > And break the NFS protocol. Pray that the NFS server won't crash if you have 
> > that on.
> 
> what does vfs.nfs.async do, then, that it breaks the protocol?

It replies to the RPC before the bits have actually hit stable storage. If
the server crashes or loses power before it syncs, the client has no way
of knowing that its data is lost.

With NFSv3, there is a change to the protocol which allows most of the
performance of async but still allows the client to re-send its changes
after the server reboots.

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Doug Rabson				Mail:  dfr@nlsystems.com
Nonlinear Systems Ltd.			Phone: +44 181 442 9037




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