Compounds allow collection of related steps into a single RPC to avoid overhead and RTT latency

• Compounds allow collection of related steps into a single RPC to avoid overhead and RTT latency

• • e.g. LOOKUP, OPEN, and READ are a logical combination and can “compounded” together
  • No logical operators allowed – This isn’t a programming language
  • Compounds are always evaluated in order sent
  • “Current” file handle and “saved” fh are only variables
  • COMPOUND returns on first error with what it has