Internet File System?

Rabid Wombat wombat at mcfeely.bsfs.org
Mon Sep 23 01:54:06 PDT 1996



On Sun, 22 Sep 1996 Scottauge at aol.com wrote:

> There is something in the UNIX world called NFS (network file system).  It is
> based on TCP/IP sockets.
> 
> I do not know if you know anything about UNIX, but the file system used does
> not have logical drives (like a: or b: etc), just one huge tree that can span
> across many harddrives on many computers, thus making them all look like one.
>  NFS helps to connect the other computer's file systems to the network tree.
> 
> I think it is pretty cool...

Yeah, real secure too.  ;)  ;)  ;)

- r.w.







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