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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.syd.connect.com.au!phaedrus.kralizec.net.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!grumpy.fl.net.au!news.webspan.net!news.intersurf.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!news.belwue.de!news.uni-ulm.de!rz.uni-karlsruhe.de!not-for-mail From: uk1o@rzstud2.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de (Felix Schroeter) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy Subject: Re: Linux vs whatever Date: 12 Feb 1997 18:04:50 +0100 Organization: University of Karlsruhe, Germany Lines: 29 Message-ID: <5dst7i$qc8@rzstud2.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> References: <32DFFEAB.7704@usa.net> <5cphaj$qvg@cynic.portal.ca> <5d7rtu$ao9@rzstud2.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> <5db29s$tbk@usenet1y.prodigy.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: rzstud2.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:157911 comp.os.linux.networking:68217 comp.os.linux.setup:96910 comp.unix.bsd.misc:2470 comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy:52666 comp.os.os2.advocacy:267271 Hello! In article <5db29s$tbk@usenet1y.prodigy.net>, bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com> wrote: >In article <5d7rtu$ao9@rzstud2.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>, >Felix Schroeter <uk1o@rzstud2.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> wrote: >[...] >| The 1KB write size was hardcoded in the Linux (2.0.something) NFS >| client implementation. >Did you just mount the filesystems using default parameters, or did >you specify larger buffersizes and not have them work? The former. I haven't tried to enlarge the blocksizes yet. >[...] >It's interestingly broken. It totally rots mounting off AIX, but >runs faster off SCO. I haven't timed Linux to Linux in long enough >to be afraid of using old data. Does SCO implement the NFS write RPC semantics incorrectly (the NFS standard requires the data including all control data to be flushed to disk before returning the acknowledgement for the RPC)? >[...] Regards, Felix.