March 2004
Intermediate to advanced
560 pages
14h 38m
English
The Networked File System (NFS) was developed by Sun Microsystems and is licensed by almost every operating system vendor. It provides a mechanism for sharing files across a network. There have been three revisions of NFS. The first version was a Sun proprietary version that was never available to other vendors. The second version was released in 1984 and available for use by other vendors. Finally, a third version was released in 1994 that tried to address some of the performance issues in earlier versions.
NFS is a client/server architecture, so obtaining good overall performance requires tuning both the client side and the server side. NFS is also very network-, filesystem-, and disk-intensive, ...
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