[Info-vax] Slow NFS VMS server Linux client

[Michael Kraemer]

JF Mezei schrieb:
> uruguru wrote:
> 
>>Hi folks
>>
>>I have installed NFS but get bad performance.
> 
> 
> I know this is an old thread.
> 
> The parameters I had given to the OP had made a difference to me, but
> now, I am realising that the difference was in pulling up a list of
> files in a directory. (aka: when on the Mac,s Finder, you click on a
> folder, how long it takes for the filenames to appear in it).
> 
> Right now, I am copying entire user directory structure and it is
> painfully slow. (aka: unix/Mac readuing files stored on the VMS system.)
> 
> 
> Perhaps it is the cp -R command which is using nfs resources
> inefficiently. (perhaps it does byte by byte read/writes ?)

For bulk transfer between fileservers/filesystems I'd use "rsync".
With proper switches it reduces the number of bytes transferred
by compression and also acts like "make" by inspecting file dates
and only transmits "newer" files.