Messages in this thread | | | From | Werner Almesberger <> | Subject | Re: NFS corruption revisited | Date | Sat, 18 Sep 1999 15:07:05 +0200 (MET DST) |
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David Weinehall wrote: > Hmmm. Wouldn't it be better to make padding the mount-time option, and > have the more fault-safe (albeit a tad bit slower) behaviour default? This > way, no unpleasant surprises.
Depends on the performance hit, I guess. I can see some logic in not crippling Linux performance by working around other people's bugs. (Personally, I wouldn't mind nopad to be the default, even if it costs 5% in bulk transfer.)
> I suggest you get the approriate patch from SunSolve and see if that > helps.
Does that patch have any name/keyword I could tell our Solaris admin ?
- Werner
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