Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 15:02:52 +0100 From: "Karsten W. Rohrbach" <karsten@rohrbach.de> To: "Doug Rabson" <dfr@nlsystems.com> 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: <009701bf8776$b93963e0$f63f3fc3@hardcore> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003060926400.8714-100000@salmon.nlsystems.com>
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so, if you mount -o nfsv3 and have vfs.nfs.async=1 it wont fail or does this mean that one has not to set vfs.nfs.async=1 ? /k -- The path of excess leads to the tower of wisdom. -W. Blake Karsten W. Rohrbach - Senior Research Engineer - Nacamar Data Communications one world. one net. nacamar - http://www.nacamar.net This was written on the road... Answers to your reply could be delayed. ----- Original Message ----- 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>; "Administração MailBR" <mailbr@mailbr.com.br>; <freebsd-fs@freebsd.org> Sent: Monday, March 06, 2000 10:28 AM Subject: Re: NFS: Linux Client and BSD Server > 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. > > -- > Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com > Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message
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