Re: Why is NFS so slow??

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Tue, 24 Mar 1998 00:12:45 +0000 (GMT)

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> No, it's a new revision of the protocol, which allows things like
> looking up whole pathnames, rather than element at a time. It's Sun's
> countermove to MS's proposal of CIFS as a standard filesystem protocol.
> See http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/networking/webnfs/index.html

WebNFS is almost identical to NFSv3. About all it changes are
1. You can look up whole path names
2. You have to use TCP
3. The rpc.mountd process has been killed

Alan

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