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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@tequila.cs.yale.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc
Subject: Re: Linux vs BSD
Date: 31 Jan 1997 17:34:53 -0500
Organization: Yale University, Department of Computer Science, New Haven, CT
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hahn@neurocog.lrdc.pitt.edu (Mark Hahn) writes:
> Linux user-space NFS works very well. can anyone offer any examples of
> why they think a kernel-mode implementation would be significantly faster?
I actually don't know and am probably just blowing hot air, but if my
suspicions are correct, the fact that the current NFS server cannot use
multiple threads while allowing write access might be related to the usermode
implementation. Not that it is impossible to do in userland, but maybe harder.
Stefan