Linux-kernel mailing list archive 1999-34,: Re: NFS in 2.2.11 (possibly 2.2.x) sucks BIGTIME.

# Re: NFS in 2.2.11 (possibly 2.2.x) sucks BIGTIME.

Bill Anderson (bill.anderson@libc.org)
Wed, 25 Aug 1999 18:49:13 -0600

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David Weinehall wrote:
>
> On Tue, 24 Aug 1999, Paul Jakma wrote:
>
> >
> > > That said, it COULD be that I am a ningcompoop with things not
> > > configured right... Any NFS tuning hints/suggestions?
> > >
> >
> > mount the nfs volumes with -o rsize=8192,wsize=8192. The default is 1024,
> > but 8192 is much much faster. You should be able to beat samba. Also look
> > into getting the updated knfsd, and apply the kernel patches. Esp if you
> > need locking to work, eg reading mail across nfs is unsafe without the
> > patches.
>
> Well, this might work as long as poor Mike doesn't need to communicate
> with non-Linux NFS-clients. However, it is (virtually) impossible to use
> Linux v2.2.x NFS with w/rsize > 2048 against other clients. There is a bug
> in Sun's nfs-client, which causes corruption, that only Linux triggers.
> This bug has been fixed by Sun, but to little avail; lots of other 'ix:es
> license Sun's (old, buggy) code.

Running 2.2.10 with NFS serving out to HPUX 10.20 clients works fine for
me, and the larger r/w-size makes a significant difference :-)

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