Subject: RE: Linux and NFS
From: Jakma, Paul (Paul.Jakma@compaq.com)
Date: Fri Nov 26 1999 - 08:13:26 AKST
> My questions: Who is maintaining the NFS code?? Do they have a home
> page? Are there performance tuning tips to get NFS to be
> faster? (read
> ahead capability etc) How about security, can I use an encrypted
> connection?
>
the biggest performance tweak is to make sure to set the rsize and wsize
mount options to at least 4096 (and maybe 8192 for alpha to alpha). The
default of 1024 just crawls.
encryption requires Sun's secureRPC extension, which isn't available yet.
(but someone's working on it)
Also, the stock linux nfs code is dreadfully old and buggy. You need to
either patch it with knfsd 0.4.7, (used to be under
ftp://ftp.varesearch.com/people/hjl, but has moved to cvs, see readme on ftp
site). Or else just get 2.2.13ac or 2.2.14pre - alan has included knfsd
0.4.7 in his patches. You also need updated nfs tools from the cvs tree.
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