<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/80b217e4-02b9-40d8-b28b-0f747a092c9a/A35042FF-8D52-4B47-802D-2A769BBBE6FC/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.enterprisestorageforum.com/sans/features/article.php/3736881" href="http://www.enterprisestorageforum.com/sans/features/article.php/3736881" style="font-size: 11px;">www.enterprisestorageforum.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.enterprisestorageforum.com/sans/features/article.php/3736881"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.enterprisestorageforum.com/img/8B2749BD-A7BA-4D72-9E9A-9F4F9F75912E" alt="Enterprise Storage Forum" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.enterprisestorageforum.com/sans/features/article.php/3736881"><B>The Future of NFS Arrives</B></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.enterprisestorageforum.com/sans/features/article.php/3736881"><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" size="-1"><IMG height="136" width="110" vspace="1" border="1" align="left" valign="top" 0="" src="http://www.enterprisestorageforum.com/img/2007/031407henry.jpg" alt="Henry Newman" /> NFS was designed by Sun Microsystems in 1984 to connect their systems, and in the process revolutionized the storage industry by allowing file systems to be connected, creating a common view of all the files within an environment.</FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.enterprisestorageforum.com/sans/features/article.php/3736881"><B>Never Fear, NFSv4.1 Is Here</B></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.enterprisestorageforum.com/sans/features/article.php/3736881"><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" size="-1">The best way to understand NFSv4.1 and what is being called pNFS is to do some reading. pNFS (Parallel NFS) is the part of the NFSv4.1 protocol that allows for high-speed movement of data between machines. It was initially a separate group. <A href="http://www.pnfs.com">pNFS.com</A> provides some of the background information on why pNFS was needed (read the problem statement <A href="http://www.pdl.cmu.edu/pNFS/archive/gibson-pnfs-problem-statement.html">here</A>, which details the problems with the current NFS protocol very well).</FONT></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/A35042FF-8D52-4B47-802D-2A769BBBE6FC/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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