From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sev Binello Subject: Re: [NFS] Redhat WS4 mount default changed to tcp ? Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 12:22:44 -0500 Message-ID: <478B9A64.5030903@bnl.gov> References: <478B90A1.5000900@bnl.gov> <1200330387.7470.11.camel@heimdal.trondhjem.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Cc: nfs@lists.sourceforge.net To: Trond Myklebust Return-path: Received: from neil.brown.name ([220.233.11.133]:37138 "EHLO neil.brown.name" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753489AbYANR36 (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Jan 2008 12:29:58 -0500 Received: from brown by neil.brown.name with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1JET8F-0008IE-Vj for linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org; Tue, 15 Jan 2008 04:29:56 +1100 In-Reply-To: <1200330387.7470.11.camel-rJ7iovZKK19ZJLDQqaL3InhyD016LWXt@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-nfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Trond Myklebust wrote: > On Mon, 2008-01-14 at 11:41 -0500, Sev Binello wrote: > >> Does anyone know the reason Redhat changed the default mount protocol to >> tcp ? >> > > It is a more robust protocol than UDP, specially when you are using > large values for rsize/wsize (by 'large' I mean 'significantly greater > than the MTU for your network'). > > Wasn't that always the case ? Was wondering Why now ? >> Can anything be inferred from this change ? >> Should we be mounting file systems tcp now ? >> > > If you have no performance problems with UDP, then by all means keep > using it... > > Cheers > Trond > > -- Sev Binello Brookhaven National Laboratory Upton, New York 631-344-5647 sev-IGkKxAqZmp0@public.gmane.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace _______________________________________________ NFS maillist - NFS@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nfs _______________________________________________ Please note that nfs@lists.sourceforge.net is being discontinued. Please subscribe to linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org instead. http://vger.kernel.org/vger-lists.html#linux-nfs