NFS

Speech parts

1. NFS - Adjective

2. NFS - Proper noun

Meaning

(computing) Initialism of Network File System.

(video games) Initialism of Need for Speed.

NFS (not comparable)

Initialism of not for sale.

Examples

A lack of native NFS or CIFS/SMB support does not make these products noncontenders for file sharing, but if that is your primary goal, you may wish to consider products that have native file protocol support. Source: Internet

Are there any issues with deploying Solr on two node jboss cluster with the index shared on a NFS mount point? Source: Internet

For instance, web page caches and client-side network file system caches (like those in NFS or SMB ) are typically read-only or write-through specifically to keep the network protocol simple and reliable. Source: Internet

For example, the NFS application protocol runs over the eXternal Data Representation (XDR) presentation protocol, which, in turn, runs over a protocol called Remote Procedure Call (RPC). Source: Internet

NFS Illustrated (2000) by Brent Callaghan - ISBN 0-201-32570-5 NFSv2 Version 2 of the protocol (defined in RFC 1094, March 1989) originally operated only over User Datagram Protocol (UDP). Source: Internet

NFS version 4.1 (RFC 5661, January 2010) 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 (pNFS extension). Source: Internet

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