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Re: Running several nfsd's in parallel
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marek Michalkiewicz)
Thu Jun 1 13:48:11 1995
From: Marek Michalkiewicz <marekm@i17linuxb.ists.pwr.wroc.pl>
To: okir@monad.swb.de (Olaf Kirch)
Date: Thu, 1 Jun 1995 17:40:30 +0200 (MET DST)
Cc: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <m0sF8z0-000Kj6C@monad.swb.de> from "Olaf Kirch" at May 27, 95 01:39:57 am
Olaf Kirch:
> When running several nfsd's, you have to be careful however. Because
> of the way file handles are currently constructed, you can only do read
> exporting this way; with write operations such as rename, you will wind
> up with inconsistent file handle caches in your nfsd incarnations.
Maybe just disable caching when running multiple servers - the performance
gain from multiple nfsd's might be better than the performance loss because
of no caching...
Caching file handles causes some other problems - for example, when I was
accessing a mounted floppy over NFS, I coulnd't umount it without killing
nfsd first because files were still open.
Regards,
Marek
