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NFS (Platforms (Unix (Unix-like, macOS, HP-UX, AIX, Solaris), Windows,…
NFS
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Network File System
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Allowing a user on a client computer to access files over a computer network much like local storage is accessed
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Versions
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NFSv3
Support for 64-bit file sizes and offsets, to handle files larger than 2 gigabytes
Support for asynchronous writes on the server, to improve write performance
Additional file attributes in many replies, to avoid the need to re-fetch them
A READDIRPLUS operation, to get file handles
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NFSv4
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Aims to provide protocol support to take advantage of clustered server deployments including the ability to provide scalable parallel access to files distributed among multiple servers
History
1990
Sun Microsystems and the Internet Society (ISOC) reached an agreement to cede "change control" of ONC RPC so that the ISOC's engineering-standards body
Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), could publish standards documents (RFCs) related to ONC RPC protocols and could extend ONC RPC
2000
By the 21st century, neither DFS nor AFS had achieved any major commercial success as compared to SMB-CIFS or NFS
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Differs from the traditional NFS server which holds the names of files and their data under the single umbrella of the server