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From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
Subject: Re: Summary:  NFS over links slower than 10 Mbit/sec
Message-ID: <5757@auspex.auspex.com>
Date: 6 Feb 91 18:56:38 GMT
References: <1991Feb5.031603.2969@amd.com>
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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>          A fellow from Sun Technical Marketing suggested 1024 for a size
>	   so that one NFS operation is a single UDP packet.

Presumably he meant "fits in a single link-level packet" or "fits in a
single IP datagram"; even with 8K reads and writes, one NFS operation
fits into a single UDP packet - the UDP packet just happens to be turned
into a fragmented IP datagram on most if not all networks.