Lesson 6 Date: 2/19/2014

Network File System (NFS)

Linux for Engineering and IT Applications

File System virtualization VFS is an abstraction of a local file system provided by Kernel for an application. Platform independent. Preserves or emulates Unix file system semantics.

NFS implementation NFS versions File System virtualization NFS and RPC NFS and OSI NFSv3 server stateless NFSv3 daemons NFSv4 features NFSv4 daemons Export/mount Exercise: setup VM for NFS Exercise: NFS server Exercise: NFS client Exercise: Automount Exercise: stale file handle Take me to the Course Website