From: Trond Myklebust Subject: Re: [NFS] Redhat WS4 mount default changed to tcp ? Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 12:06:27 -0500 Message-ID: <1200330387.7470.11.camel@heimdal.trondhjem.org> References: <478B90A1.5000900@bnl.gov> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Cc: nfs@lists.sourceforge.net To: Sev Binello Return-path: Received: from neil.brown.name ([220.233.11.133]:44013 "EHLO neil.brown.name" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751767AbYANRHR (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Jan 2008 12:07:17 -0500 Received: from brown by neil.brown.name with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1JESmG-0008EH-Ku for linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org; Tue, 15 Jan 2008 04:07:12 +1100 In-Reply-To: <478B90A1.5000900-IGkKxAqZmp0@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-nfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, 2008-01-14 at 11:41 -0500, Sev Binello wrote: > Does anyone know the reason Redhat changed the default mount protocol to > tcp ? It is a more robust protocol than UDP, specially when you are using large values for rsize/wsize (by 'large' I mean 'significantly greater than the MTU for your network'). > Can anything be inferred from this change ? > Should we be mounting file systems tcp now ? If you have no performance problems with UDP, then by all means keep using it... Cheers Trond ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace _______________________________________________ NFS maillist - NFS@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nfs _______________________________________________ Please note that nfs@lists.sourceforge.net is being discontinued. Please subscribe to linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org instead. http://vger.kernel.org/vger-lists.html#linux-nfs