Re: NFS and kernel 2.6.x

From: Trond Myklebust
Date: Sat Apr 17 2004 - 14:00:04 EST


On Sat, 2004-04-17 at 11:32, Marc Singer wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 11:15:47AM -0700, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> > This sort of issue is precisely why I'd prefer to see people use TCP by
> > default. UDP with it's dependency on fragmentation works fine on fast
> > setups with homogeneous lossless networks. It sucks as soon as you break
> > one of those conditions.
>
> I'd be glad to compare TCP to UDP on my system. It's using an nfsroot
> mount. It looks like the support is there. What activates it?

It's all there. Just use the "tcp" mount option.

Cheers,
Trond
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