On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, Steve Ames wrote: > > I asked this on stable but didn't get a response... Would I get any > performance increases by mounting NFS exported partition as Async? > > Would my soul be tormented in purgatory for doing it? > > Just to be clear... I am wondering if mounting (on the NFS _server_) a > partition (that is exportable) as async will have any performance > benefits to the NFS clients?
of course it will, but it'll also potentially cause catastrophic damage to your filesystem if the machine dies for some reason. have a look at: /usr/src/sys/contrib/softupdates/README or possibly /usr/src/contrib/softupdates/README also, play with the nfs sysctl's and mout options to tune performance. sysctl -a | grep nfs good luck, -Alfred Perlstein - [bri...@rush.net|alf...@freebsd.org] Wintelcom systems administrator and programmer - http://www.wintelcom.net/ [bri...@wintelcom.net] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
