Subject: Re: 802.11 vs. NFS?
To: None <christos@netbsd.org>
From: Rafal Boni <rafal@pobox.com>
List: tech-net
Date: 08/06/2003 13:57:32
In message <HJ7L4r.3nA@tac.nyc.ny.us>, you write:
-> In article <200308061726.h76HQZji015435@fearless-vampire-killer.waterside.ne
-> t>,
-> Rafal Boni <rafal@pobox.com> wrote:
-> >Folks:
-> > Anybody out there have good experience running NFS over 802.11?
-> > My experience so far has been that even with read and write sizes
-> > tweaked down *significantly* (I haven't tried 1k yet, 2k still has
-> > issues), at some point the mount just hangs. With the default of
-> > hard mounts, any processes looking at that FS (including df, etc.)
-> > hang in disk-wait.
[...]
->
-> I run fine with 1K.
Is this supposed to imply it didn't work with read/write sizes above that?
The fact that it was likely fragmentation-related only came to me when I
sent off the mail, else I would have tried the 1k size myself first :-)
Thx,
--rafal
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