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Foil 50 Network File Systems (1)

From Introduction to Network Protocols Lectures at Xi'an Jaotong University -- Sept 1998. by Roman Markowski
1 NFS - Network File Systems
  • originally created by Sun Microsystems, Inc as a file sharing system for TCP/IP networks; it is widely implemented, contains security features
  • Sun's concept : The network is the computer = The computer is the network
  • NFS is a distributed, client-server file system: the client requests the information and the NFS server distribute the information
  • NFS allows users to access files and printers on other systems as if they were local files
  • server: broadcasts (exports) the directories that it is sharing
  • client: mounts (automounts) the directories
  • specifications: NFSv2 RFC 1094 and NFSv3 RFC 1813
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