On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 10:41:58AM +0100, Manuel Bouyer wrote:

 > > > I don't understand why TCP is faster. I would expect UDP to be faster as
 > > > the protocol overhead is lower ...
 > > 
 > > Doesn't TCP enforce NFS v3?
 > 
 > I hope v3 is used over UDP as well !

NFS v2 was UDP, and Berkeley introduced a TCP extension for NFS v2.

NFS v3 natively supports both TCP and UDP, and the default is TCP, IIRC.

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