Re: NFS corruption revisited

Werner Almesberger (almesber@lrc.di.epfl.ch)
Sat, 18 Sep 1999 15:07:05 +0200 (MET DST)

David Weinehall wrote:
> Hmmm. Wouldn't it be better to make padding the mount-time option, and
> have the more fault-safe (albeit a tad bit slower) behaviour default? This
> way, no unpleasant surprises.

Depends on the performance hit, I guess. I can see some logic in not
crippling Linux performance by working around other people's bugs.
(Personally, I wouldn't mind nopad to be the default, even if it costs
5% in bulk transfer.)

> I suggest you get the approriate patch from SunSolve and see if that
> helps.

Does that patch have any name/keyword I could tell our Solaris admin ?

- Werner

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