From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Aug 20 14:50:49 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from cygnus.rush.net (cygnus.rush.net [209.45.245.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86C9015B2D for ; Fri, 20 Aug 1999 14:50:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@rush.net) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by cygnus.rush.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id RAA07128; Fri, 20 Aug 1999 17:56:34 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 17:56:32 -0400 (EDT) From: Alfred Perlstein To: Steve Ames Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Async NFS exports? In-Reply-To: <199908201813.NAA66892@ns1.cioe.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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