NFS White Paper - March 1995

Contents

Introduction
NFS Design and Architecture

A New Revision to the NFS Protocol--NFS Version 3

Global File Sharing

Global, Transparent File Access
Reducing Data Latency With Client Disk Caching
Efficient Data Exchange Using TCP

NFS Performance

How Caching Increases NFS Performance
Performance Improvements with NFS Version 3
NFS Version 2 Performance on Solaris

Preserving File Integrity

File Locking
Cache Consistency and File Integrity

NFS Administration

The Automounter
Support for Replica Servers
Low Cost NFS Client Support

NFS Security

Security Services Available with NFS

A Highly Available NFS Service

Highly Available NFS

Heterogeneous Systems Integration with NFS

Multi-Platform Solutions
PC Network Integration
Connecting to Novell Netware^TM Environments
Coexistence with DCE

Summary

Feature Summary

Appendix A: NFS Fundamentals

The Mechanics of NFS
The NFS Client
The NFS Protocol

Appendix B: Multi-Vendor NFS Products
Glossary
References