UDP is an unreliable protocol, whereas TCP is reliable. Initially, the
default protocol for NFS was UDP. Since NFSv3, TCP has been an option
and is now the default with NFSv4.
NFS over TCP is as reliable as locally-attached storage or SAN storage.
On 6/2/16 23:02, Michael Cunningham wrote:
I had someone tell me today that nfs should not be relied on and it should not be used for a shared mount that needed to be reliably available.
Has anyone ever hear this before?
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Michael Cunningham
