November 2004
Intermediate to advanced
328 pages
8h 12m
English
book
Securing NFS in AIX An Introduction to NFS v4 in AIX 5L Version 5.3
by Chris Almond, Lutz Denefleh, Sridhar Murthy, Aniket Patel, John Trindle
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Chapter 1. NFS Version 4 overview
The purpose of this chapter is to give a general overview of the Network File
System (NFS) protocol, from NFS V1 to NFS V4.
We give you an introduction to the NFS protocol, beginning with a look at how
NFS works. We then move on to a brief history of NFS followed by NFS V4. We
also introduce you to some of the AIX 5.3 implementation specifics of NFS V4.
The following topics are discussed in this chapter:
What is NFS?
NFS V2 and NFS V3 history
NFS V4 design motivations
Objectives of NFS V4 (RFC3530)
AIX 5.3 specific implementation of NFS V4
Planning and i
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