Network File System
Network File System (
NFS) is a protocol developed by
Sun Microsystems and defined in RFC 1094, a
network file system which allows a
computer to access files over a network as if they were on its local disks. NFS is implemented using a connectionless protocol (
UDP) in order to make it stateless.
"Network File System" is also often used as a generic term - see File system for other examples.
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