On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 06:34:06PM +0530, Shridhar Daithankar wrote:
>FTP took one third time than NFS. Is this in agreement with general observation?
>Any comments?
from NFS-HOWTO ..

<snip>
  The first thing to remember is that NFS is a slow protocol.  It has
  high overhead.  Using NFS is almost like using kermit to transfer
  files.  It's slow.  Almost anything is faster than NFS.  FTP is
  faster. HTTP is faster.  rcp is faster.  ssh is faster.
</snip>

HTH :)

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Anand Biligiri S
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