>>>>> " " == David Chow <davidchow@rcn.com.hk> writes:
> The network is fine. It is so slow that an ls -l at the rootfs
> takes more than 2 minutes. The readdir() seems alright because
> the ls immediate counts the number of records says "total
> blahbalh" but when doing individual lookup calls, it seems slow
> like hell. We have other production i686smp servers 2.4.14
As I said: 'tcpdump' ought to show you what is going on.
> serving diskless i686 clients using
> 2.4.13 kernels works great. Is there any difference in nfsroot
> with
> normal nfsmounts? And can we configure the nfsroot use a v3
Nope: no differences. NFSroot uses the exact same code as standard
NFS.
> mount? becaus now it defaults to v2 always.
As I said in my previous mail: use the mount option 'v3' on the kernel
boot line if you want NFSv3.
e.g. nfsroot="10.0.0.1:/bar,v3"
Cheers,
Trond
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