Return-Path: Received: from mail-pf0-f176.google.com ([209.85.192.176]:33338 "EHLO mail-pf0-f176.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753999AbcDGOGM (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Apr 2016 10:06:12 -0400 Received: by mail-pf0-f176.google.com with SMTP id 184so56648359pff.0 for ; Thu, 07 Apr 2016 07:06:12 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2016 16:06:11 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Question : Compress files to send with NFS4.1 From: Cedric Blancher To: Martin Houry Cc: Linux NFS Mailing List Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-nfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 7 April 2016 at 15:27, Martin Houry wrote: > Is NFS4.1 capable to compress files before sending them on the network > and decompress them on the destination to speed up the file transfert? You can get that with IP tunnel compression. Trouble is, NFS (v2/v3/v4; and younger protocol designers are even worse by telling you 'dunno care about high latency [ > 4 sec roundtrip ] any more' [yeah? wanna pester? old RFS and AFS did a better job...]) are highly sensitive to latency, and like ssh the high latency causes more trouble than its worth. Ced > > Kind regards, > Martin > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- Cedric Blancher Institute Pasteur