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

[Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz@lucidpixels.com>]

man mount

On Tue, 17 Jan 2006, Lee Revell wrote:

> 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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