Re: Poor NFS performance against FreeBSD server

I Lee Hetherington (ilh@sls.lcs.mit.edu)
Tue, 08 Jun 1999 16:17:55 -0400


Alan Cox wrote:

> > the case (NFS V2 clients against NFS V3 server, for example). And I
> > would like to avoid adding right now NFS V3 support in the kernel,
> > unless it is included in the main tree.
>
> NFSv3 will give you a massive speed up with Solaris, but of course you take
> a stability risk

For what its worth, we've been using the NFSv3 patches with the client on
50+ machines for a couple months now without problems. The servers are a pair
of NetApps.

I'd really like to see the NFSv3 patches make it into 2.2.

--Lee Hetherington

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