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'''Network File System''' ('''NFS''') is a protocol developed by [[Sun Microsystems]] in 1984 and defined in [[Request for Comments|RFC]] 1094, 1813, 3010 and 3530, a [[file system]] which allows a [[computer]] to access files over a [[network]] as if they were on its local disks.

The original versions 2 and 3 of the protocol used [[User Datagram Protocol]] (UDP) and were meant to keep the protocol stateless, with [[Lock (software engineering)|locking]] (for example) implemented outside of the core protocol. Version 4 included performance improvements and introduced a [[State (computer science)|stateful]] protocol.