Re: Open by inode? (was Re: knfsd)

Peter Svensson (petersv@psv.nu)
Mon, 4 Jan 1999 09:41:40 +0100 (CET)


On Sun, 3 Jan 1999, Jamie Lokier wrote:

> I thought the only downside to UNFSD was it's lack of threading, making
> it slow for heavy use. A clone based version would fix this, no?

I seem to remember a discussion a year or so ago about there being some
inherantly unsolvable problems with allowing userland to handle nfs
locking. On the other hand, my memory is well known for being buggy. :-)

I also don't think the difference in speed is due to threading alone, the
improvements in speed for a single request is enormous, with knfsd we are
able to saturate a 10Mbit link, unfsd was not even close.

Peter

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