>> NFS was designed to be fully stateless, [...]

> Without starting on an anti-NFS rant, I'll point out that a
> filesystem is a state store, and a filesystem server is a state
> server.  A "stateless state-server" is by definition either totally
> useless or not actually stateless.

But NFS is stateless in the sense that the protocol does not require
maintaining any state beyond that inherent in the underlying
filesystem.  In particular, a normal reboot does not destroy filesystem
state but does destroy almost all other state.

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