[TriLUG] NFS write performance problem

[Tanner Lovelace]

On Fri, 2002-12-27 at 14:39, Stephen P. Schaefer wrote:

> Note the sync call: the NFS standard demands a sync after every write. 
> If you want to live dangerously for more speed, you can forgo the 
> standard and NFS export your file systems "async" -- see the exports(5) 
> man page.

Note also that apparently the linux NFS implementation used
to default to async and now, instead, defaults to sync (or
at least that's what it told me today when I didn't have that
in my exports file...).  So, that could be part of the problem.

Cheers,
Tanner
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