Introduction to Network File System (NFS)

This lesson presents the motivation behind distributed file systems.

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Benefits of a distributed file system

One of the first uses of distributed client/server computing was in the realm of distributed file systems. In such an environment, there are a number of client machines and one server (or a few); the server stores the data on its disks, and clients request data through well-formed protocol messages. The figure below depicts the basic setup.

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