Re: NFS client problem and IO blocksize

[Trond Myklebust]

>>>>> " " == Oliver Tennert <[e-mail]> writes:

     > As you can see, the actual server-side s_blksize is 4k, whereas
     > the Linux client takes it to be 512 bytes. An strace output
     > confirms that a "cat" of a file actually uses 512 byte IO
     > chunks.

I'm taking the value from the NFSv3 'wtmult' attribute, which is
described thus in RFC1813:

      wtmult
         The suggested multiple for the size of a WRITE
         request.

If the AIX NFS server is returning 512 bytes, then that's what
'statfs' returns.

Cheers,
  Trond