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Re: [SLE] What is an NFS?
  • From: Tom Nielsen <tom@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 08 Nov 2003 12:59:41 -0800
  • Message-id: <1068325180.14559.23.camel@xxxxxxxxxxx>
On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 15:00, James Ogley wrote:

> > Can someone point me to something that describes what an NFS is and how
> > it works?
>
> NFS stands for Network File System, it allows you to mount filesystems
> from other machines. Rather than me spend ages typing a description of
> how it works (I wrote about it way back when I was Uni in a Distributed
> Systems exam - ah, memories...), there's a lot of documentation at
> http://nfs.sourceforge.net/

I looked at the above link. I now have a really bad headache.

Anyone know of something for the simple man?

Tom
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