Lesson 6 Date: 2/19/2014

Network File System (NFS)

Linux for Engineering and IT Applications

NFS in 7 layer OSI model NFS, XDR and RPC fit into the top 3 layes of the OSI model. XDR translates DATA into canonical (platform independent) format RPC provides remote procedure calls that appear as local processes.

NFS implementation NFS versions File System virtualization NFS and RPC NFS and OSI NFSv3 server stateless NFSv3 daemons NFSv4 features NFSv4 daemons Export/mount Exercise: setup VM for NFS Exercise: NFS server Exercise: NFS client Exercise: Automount Exercise: stale file handle Take me to the Course Website