Network File System (NFS) is a distributed file system protocol originally developed by Sun Microsystems (Sun) in 1984, allowing a user on a client computer...

Network file system may refer to: A distributed file system, which is accessed over a computer network Network File System (protocol), a specific brand...

usually for redundancy or performance. A shared-disk file system uses a storage area network (SAN) to allow multiple computers to gain direct disk access...

between networked computers. A file system provides a data storage service that allows applications to share mass storage. Without a file system, applications...

The InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) is a protocol, hypermedia and file sharing peer-to-peer network for sharing data using a distributed hash table to...

distributed file system, generally used for large-scale cluster computing. The name Lustre is a portmanteau word derived from Linux and cluster. Lustre file system...

access to server data when the network connection is lost. During normal operation, a user reads and writes to the file system normally, while the client...

exposing an existing disk file system over the network, over the specific SFS protocol. On Unix-like systems, SFS file systems can usually be found at...

highly available, highly performing, scalable general-purpose network distributed file system for data centers. Initially proprietary software, it was released...

Distributed File System (DFS) is a set of client and server services that allow an organization using Microsoft Windows servers to organize many distributed...

Andrew File System (AFS) is a distributed file system which uses a set of trusted servers to present a homogeneous, location-transparent file name space...

Network-attached storage (NAS) is a file-level computer data storage server connected to a computer network providing data access to a heterogeneous group...

file is one of several system facilities that assists in addressing network nodes in a computer network. It is a common part of an operating system's...

NetWare File System (NWFS) was a file system based on a heavily optimized, journal-based FAT file system. It was used in the Novell NetWare network operating...

disconnected file system) originally developed at Carnegie Mellon University. DCE/DFS consisted of multiple cooperative components that provided a network file system...

InterMezzo was a distributed file system written for the Linux kernel, distributed under the GNU General Public License. It was included in the standard...

EFS supports Network File System (NFS) versions 4.0 and 4.1 (NFSv4) protocol, and control access to files through Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX)...

remote network access, and file versioning. The original ODS-1 layer is a flat file system; the ODS-2 version is a hierarchical file system, with support...

shared document The term file sharing traditionally means shared file access, especially in the context of operating systems and LAN and Intranet services...

distributed file system (DFS) or network file system is any file system that allows access from multiple hosts to files shared via a computer network. This...

to more thorough information on file systems. Many older operating systems support only their one "native" file system, which does not bear any name apart...

In a computer file system, a fork is a set of data associated with a file-system object. File systems without forks only allow a single set of data for...

designed for file transfer over a telecommunications network. Protocols for shared file systems—such as 9P and the Network File System—are beyond the...

Google File System (GFS or GoogleFS, not to be confused with the GFS Linux file system) is a proprietary distributed file system developed by Google to...

systems, a device file, device node, or special file is an interface to a device driver that appears in a file system as if it were an ordinary file....

1983 by Barry A. Feigenbaum at IBM to share access to files and printers across a network of systems running IBM's IBM PC DOS. In 1987, Microsoft and 3Com...

access different types of concrete file systems in a uniform way. A VFS can, for example, be used to access local and network storage devices transparently...

various elements of FreeBSD (including the process model, network stack, and virtual file system), and an object-oriented device driver API called I/O Kit...

Virtual File System (PVFS) is an open-source parallel file system. A parallel file system is a type of distributed file system that distributes file data...

File Sharing (RFS) is a Unix operating system component for sharing resources, such as files, devices, and file system directories, across a network,...