Re: NFS and kernel 2.6.x

[Marc Singer]

On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 11:58:33AM -0700, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> > I'd be glad to compare TCP to UDP on my system.  It's using an nfsroot
> > mount.  It looks like the support is there.  What activates it?
> 
> It's all there. Just use the "tcp" mount option.
> 

I have a data point for comparison.

I'm copying a 40MiB file over NFS.  In five trials, the mean transfer
times are

  UDP (v2):  48.5s
  TCP (v3):  52.7s

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