Network File System: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 07:09, 11 January 2005

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Version 3 introduced support for using [[Transmission Control Protocol|TCP]] as transport. Several vendors had already extended NFSv2 to support TCP as transport. Using TCP as transport made using NFS over a [[Wide Area Network|WAN]] more feasible (although not necessarily practical).

Version 4, influenced by the [[Andrew file system|AFS]], includes performance improvements, mandates strong security, and introduces a [[State (computer science)|stateful]] protocol.

NFS is strongly associated with [[Unix|UNIX]] systems, though it can be used on any platform such as [[Apple Macintosh|Macintosh]] and [[Microsoft Windows]] [[operating systems]]. The [[server message block]] (SMB), a similar protocol, is the equivalent implementation of a network file system under Microsoft Windows.