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2.10.4 NFS - Sun Network File System
Main idea - uses caching to reduce network load
Cache file blocks, file headers etc in both client and servers memory.
More recent NFS implementations use a disk cache at the client as well.
Advantage
Advantage: If open/read/write/close can be done locally, no network traffic
Issues: failure and cache consistency
Subsections
2.10.4.1 Failures
2.10.4.2 NFS Protocol
2.10.4.3 Cache consistency
2.10.4.4 NFS and weak consistency
2.10.4.5 Sequential ordering constraints
2.10.4.6 NFS Pros and Cons
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Ian Wakeman 2005-02-22