Benchmarking NFSv3 vs. NFSv4 file operation performance

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Jun 20, 2008 7:45 AM EDT
Linux.com; By Ben Martin
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NFS version 4, published in April 2003, introduced stateful client-server interaction and "file delegation," which allows a client to gain temporary exclusive access to a file on a server. NFSv4 brings security improvements such as RPCSEC_GSS, the ability to send multiple operations to the server at once, new file attributes, replication, client side caching, and improved file locking. Although there are a number of improvements in NFSv4 over previous versions, this article investigates just one of them -- performance.

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