WebNFS
WebNFS is a product from Sun Microsystems that extends its NFS to the Internet. Although it is no longer included with the Solaris 9 media, the WebNFS package can be downloaded for free from www.sun.com/webnfs.
The Internet and the World Wide Web have become great media for information distribution and sharing. Unfortunately, the protocol for the web, HTTP, leaves much to be desired in terms of performance. HTTP is a one-way protocol that transfers multiple data formats inefficiently. Entire pages and all their contents must be transferred at the same time to the requesting browser. On the other hand, NFS works with only portions of files at a time, usually only the sections that are in use. It is possible to update sections of a file ...
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