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From: j@narcisa.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: NFS write performance
Date: 12 Jun 1995 13:37:26 +0200
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Igor Sviridov <sia-@UA.NET> wrote:
>If you want to enter dark land of asynchronous nfs, apply following
>patch (relative to 2.0R, but trivial to add to any SNAP) and
>recompile kernel with ASYNC_NFS option.
>
>I wonder, if this will be sysctl-setable in 2.0.5?
Certainly not. First, since 2.0.5R left already the door (and there
had been a couple of weeks of a code freeze before), second since NFS
v2 mandates synchronous writes. What you're looking for is defined in
the NFS v3 specs.
--
cheers, J"org private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)