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

[Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>]

On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 23:07 +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> > auto   Can be mounted with the -a option.
> >
> > defaults
> > Use default options: rw, suid, dev, exec,  auto,
> > nouser, and async.
> >
> > The default is async, no?
> 
> The server side also needs to specify async in exports. You even get a 
> warning if you do not specify sync or async, because the default had 
> been changed once.
> 

What is the date on the above man page?  Looks like the docs need to be
updated.

I believe the default was originally async, which violates the NFS spec
and is dangerous, and changed to sync at some point.

Lee

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