> > > > Not according to what I remember of the SunOS NFS documentation, > > which indicated that the driving force behind using UDP instead of > > TCP was to have the server be _completely_ stateless. (Of course > > locking is inherently stateful; they made it very clear that the > > locking protocol was considered to be an adjunct rather than part > > of the NFS protocol itself.) > When I said I recalled that they didn't do TCP because of excessive overhead, I forgot to mention that my recollection could be wrong. Also, I suspect you are correct w.r.t. the above statement. (ie. Sun's official position vs something I heard.)
Anyhow, appologies if I gave the impression that I was correcting your statement. My intent was just to throw out another statement that I vaguely recalled someone an Sun stating. rick _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
