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Re: NFS - only one client at a time can read files

From Chris Davies <chris-usenet@roaima.co.uk>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.networking
Subject Re: NFS - only one client at a time can read files
Date 2013-09-27 10:40 +0100
Organization Roaima. Harrogate, North Yorkshire, UK
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David Brown <david@westcontrol.removethisbit.com> wrote:
> Additionally, the mere act of talking about the problem has suggested an
> alternative solution.  I am copying a bunch of data from one computer to
> another computer using rsync.  Why not just use an rsync server?  (The
> historical answer is that the copy was originally a "cp -a" rather than
> "rsync -a".)

If your file transfer is network bound then rsync as two separate
processes (client & server) should run faster than a single process
accessing a remote filesystem. If the bottleneck is elsewhere it won't
help, as single-process rsync falls back to a basic copy.

Chris

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NFS - only one client at a time can read files David Brown <david@westcontrol.removethisbit.com> - 2013-09-20 16:07 +0200
  Re: NFS - only one client at a time can read files unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2013-09-20 15:15 +0000
    Re: NFS - only one client at a time can read files David Brown <david@westcontrol.removethisbit.com> - 2013-09-23 09:28 +0200
  Re: NFS - only one client at a time can read files Chris Davies <chris-usenet@roaima.co.uk> - 2013-09-20 16:54 +0100
    Re: NFS - only one client at a time can read files David Brown <david@westcontrol.removethisbit.com> - 2013-09-23 09:44 +0200
      Re: NFS - only one client at a time can read files David Brown <david@westcontrol.removethisbit.com> - 2013-09-23 11:51 +0200
      Re: NFS - only one client at a time can read files Chris Davies <chris-usenet@roaima.co.uk> - 2013-09-27 10:40 +0100
  Re: NFS - only one client at a time can read files Tauno Voipio <tauno.voipio@notused.fi.invalid> - 2013-09-20 20:37 +0300
    Re: NFS - only one client at a time can read files Chris Davies <chris-usenet@roaima.co.uk> - 2013-09-21 14:00 +0100
      Re: NFS - only one client at a time can read files Tauno Voipio <tauno.voipio@notused.fi.invalid> - 2013-09-21 18:18 +0300
      Re: NFS - only one client at a time can read files David Brown <david@westcontrol.removethisbit.com> - 2013-09-23 09:34 +0200
  Re: NFS - only one client at a time can read files David Brown <david@westcontrol.removethisbit.com> - 2013-10-10 16:28 +0200

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