The concept of NFS (Network File System) empowers a user on a client computer to have read and write privileges on shared file directories on a server computer.
This over-the-network file-sharing concept is implementable by anyone due to its open-source attribute. Before this article guide teaches us how to implement the NFS protocol, we first need to understand some of the NFS footprints.
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