On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 04:26:52PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > Thomas Pornin <Thomas.Pornin@ens.fr> writes:
> >
> > > But NFSv3 is great; if your server is NFSv3 aware, I suggest you shift
> > > your client to NFSv3 as well. It rocks.
> >
> > Can anyone point me to some docs describing the benefits of NFSv3? Thanks.
>
> Not off hand but I can give you a very brief summary of the big one - write
> speed. NFSv2 does synchronous writes with a minimal amount of write ahead.
> NFSv3 gathers writes on the server and schedules them as the server wishes.
> The client sends write requests but before it can assume them completed
> and thus clear that part of its cache has to commit them. Normally the commit
> is done well after the I/O hit server disks, if not it waits
BTW, another relevant feature is that with 2.4.x and 2.2.18aa2 you also get >2G
files with NFSv3 (like on top of ext2).
Andrea
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