Previous versions of the NFS protocol handled file names as an opaque byte
stream. They were limited to a 7-bit US ASCII representation, but were
commonly encoded in 8-bit ISO-Latin-1. There was no way to specify the type of
encoding in the XDR. This limited the use of NFS in environments where there
may be mixed character sets. In order to provide better support for
internationalization, filesystem object names (such as files and directories) are
encoded as
UTF-8 in NFS V4.
2.6.9 Volatile file handles
In previous versions of NFS, a file handle is a per-server unique identifier for a
file system ...
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