Network File System Features

This chapter describes the relationship of Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) protocol to other transport protocols. RDMA is the default transport for NFS. This chapter also describes how the NFS service works, which includes version negotiation and the features introduced in NFS Version 4 for file sharing.

This chapter contains the following topics:

• NFS Over RDMA

• How the NFS Service Works

• How Mirror Mounts Work

• How NFS Referrals Work

• Autofs Maps

• How Autofs Works

• Autofs Reference