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'''Network File System''' ('''NFS''') is a protocol developed by [[Sun Microsystems]] and defined in [[RFC 1094]], a [[network file system]] which allows a [[computer]] to access files over a network as if they were on its local disks. NFS is implemented using a connectionless protocol ([[UDP]]) in order to make it stateless.

"Network File System" is also often used as a generic term - see [[File system]] for other examples.

for other examples.

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