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From: robinson@jetsun.eng.sun.com (David Robinson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd,comp.protocols.nfs,comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: NFS V3 Alpha release
Date: 8 Feb 1995 21:25:13 GMT
Organization: SunSoft Inc.
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In article <3gu1o8$mf3@hpindda.cup.hp.com>, Rick Jones <raj@cup.hp.com> wrote:
>How much of NFS V3 has to be in place before it can be called "NFS V3"
>as opposed to "something that has many NFS V3 features?"

My opinion is that the server must support all the ops in the V3
specification that are appliciable to the native filesystem
(exceptions like no symlinks allowed).

The client side is more flexible because it may never issue some
ops like mknod or symlink, but for the ops that it does generate
they should be "correct".

Things like using a TCP transport are orthoganal to its V3ness.

	-David