On Tue, 2005-04-12 at 15:26 -0700, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> ty den 12.04.2005 Klokka 15:22 (-0400) skreiv Xin Zhao:
> > I have very very fast network and is testing NFS2 over this kind of
> > network. I noticed that for standard work like read/write a large
> > file, compile kernels, the performance of NFS2 is good. But if I try
> > to decompress kernel tar file. The standard ext2 takes 28s while NFS2
> > takes 81s. Also, if I remove the kernel source code tree, ext2 takes
> > 19s but NFS2 takes 44s.
> >
> > Why? (You can assume that network is very fast. ) Is there any
> > improvements in NFS3/4 on this issue? If so, how?
>
> NFSv2 requires the server to immediately write all data to disk before
> it can reply to the RPC write request (synchronous writes).
This behavior can be disabled with the "async" export option for NFSv2.
Lee
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