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NFS Illustrated
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NFS Illustrated

by Brent Callaghan
December 1999
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
544 pages
13h 38m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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Preface

I have been working with the NFS protocol since I joined Sun Microsystems in 1986. At that time the NFS market was expanding rapidly and I was excited to be working with the group, led by Bob Lyon, that developed the protocol and its first implementation in SunOS. In the NFS group, the protocol was a powerful but raw technology that needed to be exploited. We wanted it to run on as many platforms as possible, so an NFS porting group was assigned the task of helping other companies implement NFS on their computers.

Our NFS evangelism was a little ahead of its time. Before the phrase “open systems” had yet become hackneyed, we’d made the source code for Sun RPC available for free download via FTP server1 and organized the first Connectathon ...

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