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Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2012 08:52:57 -0700
Subject: Re: NFS: low read/stat performance on small files
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On Mar 23, 2012, at 5:16 AM, Myklebust, Trond wrote:

> All these tasks have to be done in series (you cannot do them in parallel), and so the
> latency of each task is limited by the round-trip time to the server.


Will the v4 client at least collapse them into a single compound op?