NFS File System Model and the Mount Protocol
Since NFS is used by a client to simulate access to remote directories of files as if they were local, the protocol must present the files from the remote system to the local user. Just as files on a local storage device are arranged using a particular file system, NFS uses a file system model to represent how files are shown to a user.
The NFS File System Model
The file system model used by NFS is the same one that most of us are familiar with: a hierarchical arrangement of directories that contain files and subdirectories. The top of the hierarchy is the root, which contains any number of files and first-level directories. Each directory may contain more files or other directories, allowing an arbitrary ...
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