Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 17:56:32 -0400 (EDT) From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@rush.net> To: Steve Ames <steve@cioe.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Async NFS exports? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990820175351.20420R-100000@cygnus.rush.net> In-Reply-To: <199908201813.NAA66892@ns1.cioe.com>
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On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, Steve Ames wrote: > > I asked this on stable but didn't get a response... Would I get any > performance increases by mounting NFS exported partition as Async? > > Would my soul be tormented in purgatory for doing it? > > Just to be clear... I am wondering if mounting (on the NFS _server_) a > partition (that is exportable) as async will have any performance > benefits to the NFS clients? of course it will, but it'll also potentially cause catastrophic damage to your filesystem if the machine dies for some reason. have a look at: /usr/src/sys/contrib/softupdates/README or possibly /usr/src/contrib/softupdates/README also, play with the nfs sysctl's and mout options to tune performance. sysctl -a | grep nfs good luck, -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@rush.net|alfred@freebsd.org] Wintelcom systems administrator and programmer - http://www.wintelcom.net/ [bright@wintelcom.net] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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