NFS V3 Enhancements continued

• server returns more information on every call

  • saves extra inquiries
  • helps validate cache

• more complex operations, like “readdirplus”

  • saves many lookups

• asynchronous write & modify operations and a “commit” procedure

  • V2: do, wait, do, wait ...
  • V3: do, do, do, commit

• some new operations providing hints to the client for cache validation

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