NFS Version 3 Protocol Specification
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Network Working Group B. Callaghan
Request for Comments: 1813 B. Pawlowski
Category: Informational P. Staubach
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
June 1995
NFS Version 3 Protocol Specification
Status of this Memo
This memo provides information for the Internet community.
This memo does not specify an Internet standard of any kind.
Distribution of this memo is unlimited.
IESG Note
Internet Engineering Steering Group comment: please note that
the IETF is not involved in creating or maintaining this
specification. This is the significance of the specification
not being on the standards track.
Abstract
This paper describes the NFS version 3 protocol. This paper is
provided so that people can write compatible implementations.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
1.1 Scope of the NFS version 3 protocol . . . . . . . . . . 4
1.2 Useful terms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
1.3 Remote Procedure Call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
1.4 External Data Representation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
1.5 Authentication and Permission Checking . . . . . . . . . 7
1.6 Philosophy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
1.7 Changes from the NFS version 2 protocol . . . . . . . . 11
2. RPC Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
2.1 Authentication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
2.2 Constants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
2.3 Transport address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
2.4 Sizes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
2.5 Basic Data Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
2.6 Defined Error Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
3. Server Procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
3.1 General comments on attributes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
3.2 General comments on filenames . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
3.3.0 NULL: Do nothing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
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3.3.1 GETATTR: Get file attributes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
3.3.2 SETATTR: Set file attributes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
3.3.3 LOOKUP: Lookup filename . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
3.3.4 ACCESS: Check access permission . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
3.3.5 READLINK: Read from symbolic link . . . . . . . . . . . 44
3.3.6 READ: Read from file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
3.3.7 WRITE: Write to file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
3.3.8 CREATE: Create a file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
3.3.9 MKDIR: Create a directory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
3.3.10 SYMLINK: Create a symbolic link . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
3.3.11 MKNOD: Create a special device . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
3.3.12 REMOVE: Remove a file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
3.3.13 RMDIR: Remove a directory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
3.3.14 RENAME: Rename a file or directory . . . . . . . . . . . 71
3.3.15 LINK: Create link to an object . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
3.3.16 READDIR: Read From directory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
3.3.17 READDIRPLUS: Extended read from directory . . . . . . . 80
3.3.18 FSSTAT: Get dynamic file system information . . . . . . 84
3.3.19 FSINFO: Get static file system information . . . . . . . 86
3.3.20 PATHCONF: Retrieve POSIX information . . . . . . . . . . 90
3.3.21 COMMIT: Commit cached data on a server to stable storage 92
4. Implementation issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
4.1 Multiple version support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
4.2 Server/client relationship . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
4.3 Path name interpretation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
4.4 Permission issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
4.5 Duplicate request cache . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
4.6 File name component handling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
4.7 Synchronous modifying operations . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
4.8 Stable storage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
4.9 Lookups and name resolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
4.10 Adaptive retransmission . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
4.11 Caching policies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
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