If you have two or more machines, you may wish to share disk space or devices, such as a CD drive, between machines. For this there is network filesystem (NFS), the easiest way of sharing files and ...

For years we have used Sun Solaris servers sharing filesytems (/home etc) via NFS to other Unix servers and Samba to users' desktops. This has worked extremely well but our primary file server is due ...

The network file system market is gaining traction as the demand for efficient, scalable, and secure file-sharing solutions ...

The authors develop a holistic framework for adaptively scheduling asynchronous requests in distributed file systems. The system is holistic in that it manages all resources, including network ...

In July, Microsoft announced that shared disks in Azure Disk Storage had reached general availability. Following on from that, a few days later, the tech giant revealed NFS 3.0 support for Blob ...

Files: quickly getting bigger. Networks: slowly getting faster. Something's got to give. Here's the scoop. Parallel NFS: standards-based parallel file serving The Network File System (NFS) is the ...

In this second article of a two-part series, Posey finishes up by showing you how to set up the sync task so you can synchronize your data across the two file systems. In the previous article, I ...