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 - [[EMAIL PROTECTED]|[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Wintelcom systems administrator and programmer
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