On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 11:35:54PM +0100, Manuel Bouyer wrote:

 > > Note that NFS v2 is `faster' than NFS v3 on the SPECSFS benchmark
 > > because it has lower overhead. There are benefits of running NFS v3
 > > in the real world, such as support for > 2GB files and filesystems, etc.
 > 
 > which shows that SPECSFS isn't a that good benchmark :) NFS v3 gives
 > a real boost for things like compiling a kernel on a NFS disk.

Indeed -- also note that NetBSD has recently had some improvement to
its server and client implementation for v3, which is more aggressive
in using the explicit commit feature of v3, which allows for quite a
lot of async traffic, which GREATLY improves write performance.

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        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>