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UWA week 23 (1st semester, 1st exam week) ↓

final exam 2023 4a (all 4)

4:33am Thu 6th Jun, Christopher M.

ANONYMOUS wrote:

> The Network File System (NFS) employs Remote Procedure Calls (RPCs) over the User > Datagram Protocol (UDP). > With reference to traditional file-system semantics, what problems does this choice of > interprocess communication scheme introduce? > What solutions have been implemented to address these issues? > > For this question, is it referring to potential issues such as the need for authentication across remote machine, potential networking errors like packet loss/duplication, and the need for XDR encoding? I'm a bit unsure on what the right direction is

The emphasis is on the word 'semantics' - how things must work as expected. For example, authentication is not *required* for a file-system to work as expected.