00000000.256 Nfs Mw -

In the NFS protocol, a is an opaque byte sequence that the server gives the client after a successful MOUNT call. The client presents this handle in subsequent LOOKUP , READ , or WRITE operations. Early NFS implementations filled the handle with a 32‑bit request ID . When the ID was not yet assigned—e.g., during a mount that had just been initiated but not yet fully negotiated—the server would return a handle of all zeroes. Many logging utilities simply printed the raw 8‑byte handle as two 32‑bit numbers separated by a period, yielding: