z/OS UNIX System Services File System Interface Reference
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Overview of NFS processing

z/OS UNIX System Services File System Interface Reference
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To understand how the VFS callable services API is used, you need to understand the typical sequence of operations for a network file system (NFS) server.

There are three major interactions between an NFS client and its NFS server:
  1. Mounting a path name
  2. Resolving the path name of a file or directory
  3. Accessing an individual file or directory

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