Understanding NFS

Question

HI

I would like to understand the NFS filesystem in some detail. I came across the book NFS illustrated, unfortunately it is only available as google books so some pages are missing. Has someone maybe another good ressource which would be a good start to understand NFS at a low level? I am thinking of implementing a Client/Server Framework

Thanks

Answer 1

This is documentation how NFS implemented in the Linux kernel

http://nfs.sourceforge.net/

Other resources are RFC documents

http://tools.ietf.org/

Answer 2

NFS Illustrated is available in dead-tree form - amazon have it in stock (as of a minute ago). The 'Illustrated series are generally pretty good and while I haven't read the NFS one I've got good info from others in the series. If you're considering implementing a full client/server framework for it then it might be worth the money.