From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 5 12: 1:37 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5333137B424 for ; Tue, 5 Sep 2000 12:01:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id e85J1NU09930; Tue, 5 Sep 2000 12:01:23 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2000 12:01:23 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Hanspeter Roth Bsag Cc: Dan Nelson , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ext2fs support robust? Message-ID: <20000905120123.R18862@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <20000903154433.A13312@bs11.bsag.ch> <20000903140003.D18862@fw.wintelcom.net> <20000904100032.A21607@bs11.bsag.ch> <20000904141605.B14338@dan.emsphone.com> <20000905152852.A4417@bs11.bsag.ch> <20000905102436.A3926@dan.emsphone.com> <20000905202611.B7650@bs11.bsag.ch> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: <20000905202611.B7650@bs11.bsag.ch>; from roth@bsag.ch on Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 08:26:11PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Hanspeter Roth Bsag [000905 11:26] wrote: > On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 10:24:36AM -0500, Dan Nelson wrote: > > > > The main thing is that it supports NFSv3, which makes for write speeds > > as fast as regular filesystem writes. Without NFSv3, you have to sync > > writes to disk before acknowledging them back to the client, which is > > pretty slow. NFSv3 also handles files over 4gb, but that's not an > > issue with Linux yet. > > This if I manage to make Linux 2.2.16 plus Higgen's Merges' Nfs3 patch > work on Suse 6.4 I should have an Nfs with similar performance? I don't know, we've had NFS3 in FreeBSD for 3 years now at least, and the last known bugs were worked out nearly a year ago. I don't know how long the Linux NFSv3 patch has been around, but considering it sounds like a 0-day patch, I wouldn't count on it. :) -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message