>On 01/04/2010 20:58, Jeroen Roodhart wrote: >> >>> I'm happy to see that it is now the default and I hope this will cause the >>> Linux NFS client implementation to be faster for conforming NFS servers. >>> >> Interesting thing is that apparently defaults on Solaris an Linux are chosen >> such that one can't signal the desired behaviour to the other. At least we didn't manage to get a Linux client to asyn chronously mount a Solaris (ZFS backed) NFS export... >> > >Which is to be expected as it is not a nfs client which requests the >behavior but rather a nfs server. >Currently on Linux you can export a share with as sync (default) or >async share while on Solaris you can't really currently force a NFS >server to start working in an async mode.
The other part of the issue is that the Solaris Clients have been developed with a "sync" server. The client write behinds more and continues caching the non-acked data. The Linux client has been developed with a "async" server and has some catching up to do. Casper _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
