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The advantage of using Oracle dNFS stems from the fact that it is part of the Oracle database kernel. When dNFS is enabled, all application data I/O to the NFS storage devices is through dNFS rather than kNFS.
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Oracle recommends using dNFS if NFS storage devices are used so these benefits can be exploited.