Re: Kernel 2.6.15.1 + NFS is 4 times slower than FTP!?

[Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz@lucidpixels.com>]

Did you get my other e-mail?

$ cp file /nfs/destination
$ lftp> put file


On Tue, 17 Jan 2006, Trond Myklebust wrote:

> On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 13:38 -0500, Justin Piszcz wrote:
> > Writing from SRC(A) -> DST(B).
> > I have not tested reading, but as I recall there were similar speed issues
> > going the other way too, although I have not tested it recently.
>
> How were you testing it? I'm not sure that ftp will actually sync your
> file to disk (whereas that is pretty much mandatory for an NFS server),
> so unless you are transferring very large files, you would expect to see
> a speed difference due to caching of writes by the server.
>
> Cheers,
>  Trond
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