NETWORK FILE SYSTEM

Specialty Definition: NETWORK FILE SYSTEM

Domain	Definition
Computing	Network File System (NFS) A protocol developed by Sun Microsystems, and defined in RFC 1094, which allows a computer to access files over a network as if they were on its local disks. This protocol has been incorporated in products by more than two hundred companies, and is now a de facto standard. NFS is implemented using a connectionless protocol (UDP) in order to make it stateless. See Nightmare File System, WebNFS. (1994-12-12). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.
Post & Telecom	A protocol developed to use IP and allow a set of computers to access each other's file systems as if they were on the local host. Source: European Union. (references)
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Specialty Definition: Network File System

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Network File System (NFS) is a protocol developed by Sun Microsystems and defined in RFC 1094, a network file system which allows a computer to access files over a network as if they were on its local disks. NFS is implemented using a connectionless protocol (UDP) in order to make it stateless.

"Network File System" is also often used as a generic term - see File system for other examples.

This article (or an earlier version of it) contains material from FOLDOC, used with permission.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Network File System."

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Crosswords: NETWORK FILE SYSTEM

Specialty definitions using "NETWORK FILE SYSTEM": GUARDIAN 90 operating system ♦ installable file system ♦ Linux Network Administrators' Guide ♦ Network Filing System, NFS ♦ PCNFS, PC-NFS ♦ RFC 1094 ♦ Sun Microsystems, Inc.. (references)

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: NETWORK FILE SYSTEM

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
network file system	14
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Modern Translation: NETWORK FILE SYSTEM

Language		Translations for "NETWORK FILE SYSTEM"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Danish		NFS-protokol, NFS. (various references)

Dutch		NFS, network file system. (various references)

Finnish		NFS-protokolla. (various references)

French		système de fichiers distribués. (various references)

German		Network-File-System. (various references)

Greek		NFS (blood count, complete blood count), σύστημα αρχειοφακέλων δικτύου, σύστημα αρχείων δικτύου. (various references)

Pig Latin		etworknay ilefay ystemsay

Portuguese		sistema de ficheiros de rede. (various references)

Spanish		sistema de ficheros distribuidos, sistema de archivos de red, sistema de archivo en red. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: NETWORK FILE SYSTEM

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-e-e-f-i-k-l-m-n-o-r-s-s-t-t-w-y"
	-5 letters: sensitometer, sensitometry, tensiometers.
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