Lesson 6 Date: 2/19/2014

Network File System (NFS)

Linux for Engineering and IT Applications

NFS and RPC NFS utilizes Remote Procedure Calls (RPC) layer for server -- client communications. Marshalling - Packaging arguments in XDR (eXternal Data Representation) format. XDR format is platform independent RPC allows applications on one host to call procedures (functions) on the other remote host RPC allows a server to respond to more than one version of a protocol at the same time (NFS 3 or NFS 2).

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