Size didn't seem to be the issue. I could cp the files without trouble. It seemed to be a problem of small writes, iirc from the last time I tried to figure it out.
On Nov 16, 2017 9:01 AM, "Frank Filz" <ffilz...@mindspring.com> wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 6:54 AM, Frank Filz <ffilz...@mindspring.com> > > wrote: > > > > >> For me, its the simplicity of it, and the legacy of it working for a > > >> long time, and the utter lack of modern best practices documentation. > > >> If you go looking for NFS howto's, you almost immediately notice that > > >> they are all at least 10 years old, and there is pretty much nowhere > > >> to ask questions. At least, that has been the case in the past when > > >> I've tried to go looking. UDP in particular is stateless, which is a > nice > > feature. > > > > > > It's a bit surprising there isn't much NFS how to online, but most of > > > the NFS developer community is involved with enterprise servers and > > > probably the how to stuff is in product installation guides and such... > > > > > > If you don't really require fcntl locks, then NFS v3 is certainly a > > > simple protocol for transferring data, though as I mentioned before, > > > using UDP is now strongly discouraged due to the fragment reassembly > > > issues causing both severe performance issues and data integrity > issues. > > > > > > NFS v4 doesn't always perform as well as NFS v3, but if you are doing > > > fcntl locking, it's far superior for resiliency across server and > client > crashes. > > > > > > I can try and answer questions here... I know a thing or two about NFS > > > (having worked with both the Linux kernel NFS implementation and the > > > nfs-ganesha user space server)... > > > > Oh, are you the fellow who gave the ganesha talk a few years ago? > > Yes, that was me. > > > For me, NFSv3 UDP has been mostly just working for me. The one thing > that > > has caused me grief is GIMP, which seems to have egregiously bad save > > performance on my NFS mounts. > > That might be the UDP issue depending on how big your files are... > > Frank > > > --- > This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. > https://www.avast.com/antivirus > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > PLUG@pdxlinux.org > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
