Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2000 12:01:23 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: Hanspeter Roth Bsag <roth@bsag.ch> Cc: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ext2fs support robust? Message-ID: <20000905120123.R18862@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <20000905202611.B7650@bs11.bsag.ch>; from roth@bsag.ch on Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 08:26:11PM %2B0200 References: <20000903154433.A13312@bs11.bsag.ch> <20000903140003.D18862@fw.wintelcom.net> <20000904100032.A21607@bs11.bsag.ch> <20000904141605.B14338@dan.emsphone.com> <20000905152852.A4417@bs11.bsag.ch> <20000905102436.A3926@dan.emsphone.com> <20000905202611.B7650@bs11.bsag.ch>
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* Hanspeter Roth Bsag <roth@bsag.ch> [000905 11:26] wrote: > On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 10:24:36AM -0500, Dan Nelson wrote: > > > > The main thing is that it supports NFSv3, which makes for write speeds > > as fast as regular filesystem writes. Without NFSv3, you have to sync > > writes to disk before acknowledging them back to the client, which is > > pretty slow. NFSv3 also handles files over 4gb, but that's not an > > issue with Linux yet. > > This if I manage to make Linux 2.2.16 plus Higgen's Merges' Nfs3 patch > work on Suse 6.4 I should have an Nfs with similar performance? I don't know, we've had NFS3 in FreeBSD for 3 years now at least, and the last known bugs were worked out nearly a year ago. I don't know how long the Linux NFSv3 patch has been around, but considering it sounds like a 0-day patch, I wouldn't count on it. :) -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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