On Tue, Aug 06, 2002 at 10:34:46AM -0500, Florin Iucha wrote: > 1. NFS is not "file transfer", it is "pieces of file transfer". > Probably the most used RPCs are read(handle, offset, size) and > write(handle, offset, size). Good points. Probably a good argument against using NFS to transfer those 500MB files(A dedicated "file transfer" protocol should be a more optimized solution that will run faster.) Silly me, what was I thinking, using a network file system to transfer files over the network :) > 2. NFS is a stateless protocol. It is designed such as the server can > crash or be rebooted and after the rebooot the clients will just > resume operations as nothing happened. > TCP is statefull. This is an "impedance mismatch" with the semantics > of the upper level protocol that slowed its adoption as the > transport. Linux still doesn't have a working NFS-over-TCP server.