On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, Anand Biligiri S wrote:
> 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>
>
For a stable line i was expecting the other way round, since NFS uses UDP.
I guess the overhead of managing a proper stream over UDP is to high
-- sreangsu
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