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<article lang="&language;" id="nfs">
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<title
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>nfs</title>
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<articleinfo>
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<authorgroup>
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<author
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>&Lauri.Watts; &Lauri.Watts.mail;</author>
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<othercredit role="translator"
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><firstname
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>Malcolm</firstname
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><surname
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>Hunter</surname
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><affiliation
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><address
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><email
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>malcolm.hunter@gmx.co.uk</email
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></address
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></affiliation
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><contrib
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>Conversion to British English</contrib
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></othercredit
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>
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</authorgroup>
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</articleinfo>
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<para
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>Sun's <acronym
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>NFS</acronym
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> protocol provides transparent remote access to shared file systems across networks. The <acronym
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>NFS</acronym
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> protocol is designed to be machine, operating system, network architecture, and transport protocol independent. This independence is achieved through the use of Remote Procedure Call (<acronym
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>RPC</acronym
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>) primitives built on top of an eXternal Data Representation (<acronym
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>XDR</acronym
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>). </para>
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<para
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>The supporting MOUNT protocol performs the operating system-specific functions that allow clients to attach remote folder trees to a point within the local file system. The mount process also allows the server to grant remote access privileges to a restricted set of clients via export control.</para>
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<para
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>The Lock Manager provides support for file locking when used in the <acronym
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>NFS</acronym
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> environment. The Network Lock Manager (<acronym
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>NLM</acronym
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>) protocol isolates the inherently stateful aspects of file locking into a separate protocol.</para>
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<para
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>Source: <ulink url="http://www.networksorcery.com/enp/protocol/nfs.htm"
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> http://www.networksorcery.com/enp/protocol/nfs.htm</ulink
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> </para>
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<para
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>See the manual: <ulink url="man:/nfs"
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>nfs</ulink
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>. </para>
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</article>
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