Webnfs Server Specification

By Callaghan, B.

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Title:	Webnfs Server Specification
Author:	Callaghan, B.
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Language:	English
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Description
Technical Reference Publication

Excerpt
Introduction: The NFS protocol provides access to shared filesystems across networks. It is intended to be machine, operating system, network architecture, and transport independent. The protocol currently exists in two versions: version 2 [RFC1094] and version 3 [RFC1813], both built on Sun RPC [RFC1831] and its associated eXternal Data Representation (XDR) [RFC1832]. This document assumes some familiarity with the NFS protocol and underlying RPC protocols. WebNFS servers implement semantic extensions to both versions of the NFS protocol to support a lightweight binding mechanism for conventional or web browser clients that need to communicate with NFS servers across the Internet. a WebNFS server supports the public filehandle and multi-component lookup features described herein, as well as meeting some additional requirements.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents 1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 2. TCP vs UDP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 3. Well-known Port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 4. Server Port Monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 5. Public Filehandle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 5.1 Version 2 Public Filehandle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 5.2 Version 3 Public Filehandle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 6. Multi-component Lookup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 6.1 Canonical Path vs. Native Path . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 6.2 Symbolic Links . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 6.3 Export Spanning Pathnames . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 7. Location of Public Filehandle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 8. Index Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 9. Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 10. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 11. Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 12. Author's Address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10