Date: Sun, 20 Aug 1995 11:22:59 +0400 (????) From: Dmitry Khrustalev <dima@bog.msu.su> To: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM> Cc: hackers@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: Making a FreeBSD NFS server Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.91.950820111605.552D-100000@sunny.bog.msu.su> In-Reply-To: <199508200552.WAA00268@corbin.Root.COM>
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On Sat, 19 Aug 1995, David Greenman wrote: > >> > >> > What can I do to improve NFS writes to a FreeBSD server? The > >> > machine was idle at the time, with four nfsd's running. Should I be > >> > using UDP or TCP (I turned both on)? > >> > > > >Assuming you are running 2.1 branch: current (2.2) code includes support > >for write gathering, which can improve large write performance. > >Be warned: 2.2 kernel is incompatible with 2.1 user space utilities. > > If there is interest, I'll implement an NFS_ASYNC kernel option for both > FreeBSD 2.1 and 2.2. Kernel option or per filesystem option? Switching it on for all filesystems at once is evil. And if nfs3 data corruption problems are resolved, this option will not have any real value. -Dima > > -DG >
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