16.8. Exercises

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Explore your local NFS setup. Is NFS used, or is a different solution in place? Is automounting used? What tradeoffs have been made?

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What is the relationship between mountd, nfsd, and portmap? What does NFS’s dependency on portmap mean in terms of security?

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What are some of the design ramifications of NFS being a stateless protocol? In particular, discuss any effects statelessness has ...

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