Network file protocol
The network file system is a network-based distributed file system. The nodes of the file system tree may exist on different networking computers or even different system platforms, which can be used to provide cross-platform information storage and sharing. Today's two major network file systems are Sun proposed NFS (Network File System) and the CIFS (Common Internet file system) proposed by Microsoft, EMC and NetApp, which is mainly used for a variety of UNIX platforms, which mainly With Windows platform, our familiar "online neighbor" file sharing method is based on CIFS system. Other famous network file systems have Novell's NCP (Network Control Protocol), Apple's AFP and Coda-Melli University's CODA, etc., one of the main features of NAS is to provide storage through a variety of network file systems service.
