Network File System: Difference between revisions

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* assorted other improvements.

The first NFS Version&nbsp;3 proposal within Sun Microsystems was created not long after the release of NFS Version&nbsp;2. The principal motivation was an attempt to mitigate the performance issue of the synchronous write operation in NFS Version&nbsp;2.<ref name="usenix94">{{cite web |url= https://www.usenix.org/legacy/publications/library/proceedings/bos94/full_papers/pawlowski.ps |title=NFS Version&nbsp;3 Design and Implementation |year=1994 |publisher=[[USENIX]] |author1=Brian Pawlowski |author2=Chet Juszczak |author3=Peter Staubach |author4=Carl Smith |author5=Diane Lebel |author6=David Hitz }}</ref> By July 1992, implementation practice had solved many shortcomings of NFS Version&nbsp;2, leaving only lack of large file support (64-bit file sizes and offsets) a pressing issue. This became an acute pain point for [[Digital Equipment Corporation]] with the introduction of a 64-bit version of [[Ultrix]] to support their newly released 64-bit [[Reduced instruction set computing|RISC]] processor, the [[Alpha 21064]]. At the time of introduction of Version&nbsp;3, vendor support for [[Transmission Control Protocol|TCP]] as a [[transport layer|transport-layer]] protocol began increasing. While several vendors had already added support for NFS Version&nbsp;2 with TCP as a transport, Sun Microsystems added support for TCP as a transport for NFS at the same time it added support for Version&nbsp;3. Using TCP as a transport made using NFS over a [[Wide area network|WAN]] more feasible, and allowed the use of larger read and write transfer sizes beyond the 8&nbsp;KB limit imposed by [[User Datagram Protocol]].

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