Advanced Topics in Operating Systems

Fall 1997

BGU Math & Computer Science Department


Server Requirements

In general, the server will support all NFS server functions, as specified in /usr/include/nfs/nfs.h

Upon "boot" (program startup), server will read a port definition file, and a filesystem export specification file. The former will define the port for incoming client requests. The latter will contain "filesystem" names and "devices" to export.

The server need not support encryption, client authentication, etc. However, error detection will in general be performed by the server, for the following error types: