slide 22 of 37

File I/O Using NFS

• NFS is the Network File System
  • Great for sharing read-only files
  • Updates are block oriented, incoherent
  • There is no NFS "flush" operation
  • Each file still resides in one PC, lousy performance
• Linux NFS mounting:
  • Export: in /etc/exports,
    localtree importer0 importer1 ...
  • Import: in /etc/fstab,
    host:tree localtree nfs defaults 1 1