[clue-tech] MAC NFS?

David L. Willson DLWillson at TheGeek.NU
Fri Sep 14 10:12:12 MDT 2007


On Fri, 2007-09-14 at 10:09 -0600, David L. Willson wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-09-14 at 00:13 -0600, Nate Duehr wrote:
> > On Sep 13, 2007, at 11:26 AM, David L. Willson wrote:
> > 
> > > Anyone aware of a way to skip the TCP/IP layer when NFS mounting?   
> > > Both
> > > boxes are on the same segment, and I want maximum throughput, lowest
> > > latency, lowest CPU demand, for free, with a shared network filesystem
> > > (hence NFS).  This storage will be used to host vmware files for 2-4
> > > Linux VMware Servers.
> > 
> > NFS by default is UDP, not TCP.  Perhaps you have it configured wrong ...
> 
> Nate:  I'm still in design-time, I'm just trying to get as close to
> wire-speed as I can.

FWIW: I'm pretty sure NFS is the right choice, so thanks for the link to
the HOW-TO, I'll use it for speed optimization later.





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