[DRBD-user] Slow NFS behaviour (0.7.5)

Philipp Reisner philipp.reisner at linbit.com
Wed Nov 24 12:44:52 CET 2004

Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.


[...]
> Please clearly differentiate between sync/async mount and sync/async NFS
> export options, thats really a very big difference.
> E.g. a sync mount won't help you on a server failure, if you export async,
> it will just slightly slow down the network due to those many NFS commits,
> but is not the slighlest way more secure.
>
> There's currently an interesting thread on the nfs mailing list about
> async/sync exports, I just cite Trond Myklebust (the linux NFS client
> maintainer) here:
>
> "The problem is the server side "async" option which basically causes
> knfsd to ignore COMMIT requests, as well as causing it to fail to
> fsync() the directory after file CREATE/LINK/UNLINK/RENAME/...
> i.e. it turns of all consistency guarantess on the server."
>

Interesting new insights about NFS !

-Philipp
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