NFS: dangerous fragmentation

Posted Jun 23, 2022 21:57 UTC (Thu) by neilbrown (subscriber, #359)
In reply to: NFS: dangerous fragmentation by giraffedata
Parent article: NFS: the early years

> Neil appears to be talking about fragmentation of the protocol and the developer community, whereas you seem to be talking about something technical.

Indeed. The only technical issue that I know of which involves NFS and fragmentation relates to UDP packets being fragmented into IP packets, and not necessarily being assembled properly.
See "man 5 nfs" and the section titled "Using NFS over UDP on high-speed links".
You can find that man page at http://man.he.net/man5/nfs if you don't want to leave your browser just now.
Or maybe https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man5/nfs.5.html but that site isn't responding for me just now.