Summary: NFS V3

• is still stateless

• is no more secure than V2

• has fewer limitations

• still has no real client side caching

  • works better, but
  • still weak semantics

• has significantly reduced overhead

• in reality, makes a big difference

  • amazingly fast
  • more active clients per server possible
  • newer implementations may just be better ...

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