NFS uses another program, portmapper, which shows the way to find all NFS services on the system. The very first guard to protect your machine from everlasting net requests uses a pair of files, ...

Your NFS file-system is set up as SYNC, which means that the I/O has to get to the server's disk before the write is considered to be complete. Your test case ("dd") is using small blocks (16KB).

NFS vs iSCSI: Compare performance, scalability, and security to choose the best storage protocol for your virtualized environment.

Version 4.1 of the Network File System protocol is now supported on Azure Files. It will be provided to customers in the form of a fully managed NFS file system as a service, in preview for now.

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 ...

CA-NFS: A Congestion-Aware Network File System The authors develop a holistic framework for adaptively scheduling asynchronous requests in distributed file systems.

Microsoft has sponsored research at the University of Michigan to develop an open source Network File System client for Windows.Michigan's Center for Information Technology Integration also ...

Microsoft and NetApp to deliver native version of its Data ONTAP enterprise network file system to Azure and will offer added protection of Office 365 data.