Network File System (NFS)
Bozidar Levi · 2002
The Network File System (NFS) is one of the network services that have quickly gained a leading role in the emerging networked environment. NFS allows directories and files to be shared across a network. It is supported by virtually all UNIX flavors and many non-UNIX platforms. Through NFS, users and programs can access files residing at remote systems as if they were local files. In an ideal NFS environment, users neither know nor care where files are actually located. The benefits of such an approach are obvious: • NFS reduces local disk storage requirements because a network can store a single copy of a directory accessible by everyone on the network.