Well, NFS is a state-less protocol, to it would make sense to use a connection-less protocol at the network layer. Karl Bongers wrote: > > UDP has a lot less overhead and is much faster over a clean/fast network. > > It just seems like they'd have to "re-invent" TCP in the implementation. > And if you have to re-invent it, then you would have just as much or more > overhead as TCP. > > I can understand UDP for short blips of information, like SNMP, > but file transfer(you would think) would be the perfect application for TCP. > Obviously its not that simple, and considering there is an option to do > NFS on TCP, I'll bet it's a bit contentious a subject as well. > > _______________________________________________ > Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list