How the NFS Service Works

The following sections describe some of the complex functions of the NFS software. Some of the feature descriptions in this section are exclusive to NFS Version 4.

• Planned Graceless Recovery

• NFS Over RDMA

• Version Negotiation in NFS

• Features in NFS Version 4.1

• Features in NFS Version 4

• UDP and TCP Negotiation

• File Transfer Size Negotiation

• How File Systems Are Mounted in NFS Version 3

• Effects of the -public Option and NFS URLs When Mounting

• Client-Side Failover

• How NFS Server Logging Works

• How the WebNFS Service Works

• How WebNFS Security Negotiation Works

• WebNFS Limitations With Web Browser Use

Note:

If your system has zones enabled and you want to use this feature in a non-global zone, see Introduction to Oracle Solaris Zones.