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Use remote filesystems: NFS

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Use remote filesystems: NFS

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- [Instructor] In our previous lessons, we learned how to work with local file systems and local block storage devices. Basically, data that exists on the same system that we're logged into, but sometimes we need data that resides on a different system. In this lesson, we'll learn how to use remote file systems, and in one of our next lessons, how to use remote block devices. Let's go through these scenarios in order. There are multiple protocols that allow us to access remote file systems. Now, a protocol, in a way, is a language that a client and server use to communicate. They need to speak the same language so that they can understand each other, negotiate a connection and transfer data. Linux supports many protocols for the purpose of sharing file systems, but for sharing data between two Linux computers, the Network Filesystem Protocol is most often used. This is also abbreviated as NFS. Let's see how we can use NFS on Linux. There are two parts to using NFS: setting up the NFS…

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