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Improved access and good performance on the Internet
Improved access and good performance on the Internet
- Protocol designed to transit firewalls easily, perform well where latency is high and bandwidth is low, and scale to very large numbers of clients per server.
Strong security with negotiation built into the protocol
- Builds on the work of the ONCRPC working group in supporting the RPCSEC_GSS protocol. Additionally, the NFS version 4 protocol provides a mechanism to allow clients and servers the ability to negotiate security and require clients and servers to support a minimal set of security schemes.
Good cross-platform interoperability
- Features a filesystem model providing a useful, common set of features that does not unduly favor one filesystem or operating system
Designed for protocol extensions
- The protocol is designed to accept standard extensions that do not compromise backward compatibility.