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On Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 11:01:45AM -0400, Joseph Mack wrote:
> John Cronin wrote:
>
> > So, how stable is the current NFS on Linux?
>
> not great. I use the userland nfs (as against kernel). The rpc demons
> die occassionally and I run a cronjob every minute to restart missing
> ones.
>
>
> Is there a particular
> > implementation that is stable (ie won't lose data) and has good
> > performance?
>
> performance is about 1/3 the speed of a local mounted IDE (see the
> performance page on the website).
>
> I've read that Linux nfs is never going to be fast as the layers of nfs
> code are mapped onto ufs. The mapping for ext2 just doesn't work well and
> never will
If you are running NFS on Linux you sould be looking at
http://nfs.sourceforge.net/ . Dave Higgen has been doing a lot
of good things in this area.
--
Horms
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