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From: Peter Staubach <staubach@redhat.com>
To: Jim Rees <rees@umich.edu>
Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>,
	"Roy M." <setesting001@gmail.com>,
	linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Is NFS v4 stable and recommend to use now?
Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2008 15:15:40 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <48E51DDC.7090503@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081002174129.GD6039@citi.umich.edu>

Jim Rees wrote:
> J. Bruce Fields wrote:
>
>   Raw throughput should be the same.  And I think the little benchmarking
>   I've seen has found that to be true.
>
> Actually v4 is better on fast nets because you can make the iosize bigger.
>   

How is that?  NFSv3 supports a 32 bit transfer size and runs over
TCP, just the same as NFSv4.

The benefits should come via the use of delegations to decrease
some latencies.

       ps

      reply	other threads:[~2008-10-02 19:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-02 16:49 Is NFS v4 stable and recommend to use now? Roy M.
     [not found] ` <beaf78240810020949j703d95cvab1c44f33bff7019-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2008-10-02 17:17   ` J. Bruce Fields
2008-10-02 17:34     ` Roy M.
     [not found]       ` <beaf78240810021034k3cb7db69p7ac458b8a3cfbb28-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2008-10-03 21:52         ` J. Bruce Fields
2008-10-04 13:34           ` Roy M.
     [not found]             ` <beaf78240810040634i672904c7g51e02855227a9d7c-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2008-10-04 20:48               ` J. Bruce Fields
2008-10-05  0:20                 ` Marcelo Leal
2008-10-02 17:41     ` Jim Rees
2008-10-02 19:15       ` Peter Staubach [this message]

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