Lesson 5 Date: 2/19/2009

Network File System (NFS)

Linux for Engineering and IT Applications

File System virtualization VFS is an abstraction of a local file system provided by Kernel for an application. Platform independent. Preserves or emulates Unix file system semantics.

NFS implementation NFS versions File System virtualization NFS and RPC NFS and OSI NFSv3 server stateless NFSv3 daemons NFS mount NFSv3 server side NFSv3 client side Standard mount Automount Security and Optimization NFSv4 features NFSv3 Exercises NFSv4 Exercises Take me to the Course Website