>>>>> "sreangsu" == sreangsu acharyya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
sreangsu> On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, Anand Biligiri S wrote:
>> [snip]
>> <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>
sreangsu> For a stable line i was expecting the other way round,
sreangsu> since NFS uses UDP. I guess the overhead of managing a
sreangsu> proper stream over UDP is to high
Nope, it's the overhead of managing a filesystem and all associated
operations (unlink, open, close, seek, etc) which is too high.
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