[17258] in Athena Bugs

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Re: attach

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Tue Oct 12 08:20:56 1999

Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 08:20:41 -0400 (EDT)
Message-Id: <199910121220.IAA20533@small-gods.mit.edu>
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: John Carr <jfc@mit.edu>
CC: bugs@mit.edu
In-reply-to: "[17249] in Athena Bugs"

> 2. If I ask for mount options and attach can't use them because the
> filesystem is already attached with different options, it should
> warn me.

This is definitely a problem, and we have a fix for it in the
pipeline, either for some future 8.3 patch release or for the next
full release.

> 1. attach should try TCP with a large transfer size before going to
> UDP with a small transfer size.

This seems more speculative, and requires actual testing and
performance analysis on all of our platforms (including Linux, these
days) before we should make the change.  So I don't guarantee that it
will happen any time soon.

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