Chapter 9The Network Filesystem
This chapter is divided into three main sections. The first gives a brief history of remote filesystems. The second describes the client and server halves of NFS and the mechanics of how they operate. The final section describes the techniques needed to provide reasonable performance for remote filesystems in general, and NFS in particular.
9.1 History and Overview
When networking first became widely available in 4.2BSD, users who wanted to share files all had to log in across the net to a central machine on which the shared files were located. These central machines quickly became far more loaded than the user’s local machine, so demand quickly grew for a convenient way to share files on several machines at ...
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