> My system defaults to tcp nfs v3 if no options are specified.  Given that
> autofs now supports lazy mounts and unmounts, Is there a compelling reason
> not to use TCP and/or version 3 mounts for the LAN?


Well, my understanding of TCP is that it uses a sliding window/packet
acknowledgment system to transfer data.  I would imagine that this
would incur a bandwidth overhead vs. UDP.  So, given that it's more
efficient to use UDP on the LAN, that is the behavior I had wanted to
set up.

> To answer your question directly, no, there isn't a way to specify mount
> options per server.

I didn't think there would be at the moment.  Perhaps there would
be a way to set this up with automounter variables, or some other
mechanism.  I guess what I had been hoping for is that automounter
could somehow detect how long it takes to contact a given server,
and then depending on the lag, it would set the mount to be UDP
for a short lag, or TCP version 3 for a long one.

-Dave

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David Meleedy                           Analog Devices, Inc.
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