Linux-kernel mailing list archive 1999-23,: Re: Poor NFS performance against FreeBSD server

# Re: Poor NFS performance against FreeBSD server

G. Allen Morris III (gam3@ann.ixlabs.com)
Sat, 12 Jun 1999 00:59:36 -0700

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The NFS v3 patches should make it into the 2.2 kernel soon.

Allen

>>>I Lee Hetherington said:
> Alan Cox wrote:
>
> > > the case (NFS V2 clients against NFS V3 server, for example). And I
> > > would like to avoid adding right now NFS V3 support in the kernel,
> > > unless it is included in the main tree.
> >
> > NFSv3 will give you a massive speed up with Solaris, but of course you tak
e
> > a stability risk
>
> For what its worth, we've been using the NFSv3 patches with the client on
> 50+ machines for a couple months now without problems. The servers are a pa
ir
> of NetApps.
>
> I'd really like to see the NFSv3 patches make it into 2.2.
>
> --Lee Hetherington
>
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