NFS client defaults to a mix of UDP and TCP

Andriy Gapon avg at icyb.net.ua
Mon Sep 14 13:28:56 UTC 2009


on 14/09/2009 15:58 John Baldwin said the following:
> 
> Yes.  I know of folks would love to have NFS use only TCP, including the 
> initial RPC portmapper requests.  IMO an NFS mount should use TCP for 
> everything and a UDP mount should use UDP for everything by default.
> 

And another fact - it seems that NFS umount unconditionally uses UDP for "something":

/*
 * Report to mountd-server which nfsname
 * has been unmounted.
 */
if (ai != NULL && !(fflag & MNT_FORCE) && do_rpc) {
        clp = clnt_create(hostp, MOUNTPROG, MOUNTVERS, "udp");
...

-- 
Andriy Gapon


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