# Benchmarking NFSv3 vs. NFSv4 file operation performance

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**Created:** [June 20, 2008, 4:20am UTC](https://community.unix.com/t/benchmarking-nfsv3-vs-nfsv4-file-operation-performance/201851 "2008-06-20T04:20:06Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 20, 2008, 4:20am UTC](https://community.unix.com/t/benchmarking-nfsv3-vs-nfsv4-file-operation-performance/201851/1 "2008-06-20T04:20:06Z")

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Fri, 20 Jun 2008 08:00:00 GMT  
NFS [version 4](http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3530), published in April 2003, [introduced](http://nfs.sourceforge.net/#faq_a6) 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](http://nfs.sourceforge.net/nfs-howto/ar01s05.html).

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