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setting up nfs



On Thu, 26 Jul 2001, Jerry Feldman wrote:
>Also, let me elaborate even further. Even without regard to
>security, you really do not want to use NFS over any slow
>connection. (And I mean < 10Mbps). It can cause your entire system
>to slow down under some circumstances.

At work, our host provider temporarily switched a development machine
to use NFS over a T1, and as a result MySQL queries would take 10
times longer than usual (or longer). And when trying to list
directories, it would occasionally give NFS errors indicating
that NFS wasn't responding.

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