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...

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...

InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) is a protocol, hypermedia and file sharing peer-to-peer network for storing and sharing data in a distributed file system. IPFS...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

In the BitTorrent file distribution system, a torrent file or meta-info file is a computer file that contains metadata about files and folders to be distributed...

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)...

participate in computer networks and shared file and printer access within a local area network (LAN). This description of operating systems is now largely historical...

Network-attached storage (NAS) is a file-level (as opposed to block-level storage) computer data storage server connected to a computer network providing...

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...

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

features include support for single system image on computer clusters and the introduction of the log-structured file system. The Tcl scripting language also...

Apple File System (APFS) is a proprietary file system developed and deployed by Apple Inc. for macOS Sierra (10.12.4) and later, iOS 10.3, tvOS 10.2,...

1983 by Barry A. Feigenbaum at IBM to share access to files and printers across a network of systems running IBM's OS/2. In 1987, Microsoft and 3Com implemented...

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

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...

partially replaced by Distributed File System Replication. It is also known as NTFRS after the name of the executable file that runs the service. One of the...

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...

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...

divided. While P2P systems had previously been used in many application domains, the architecture was popularized by the file sharing system Napster, originally...

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

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

Unix-like computer operating systems, a file descriptor (FD, less frequently fildes) is a process-unique identifier (handle) for a file or other input/output...