Describe the names (including identifiers) and attributes used in a distributed file service such as
NFS (see Chapter 12).
What will be an ideal response?
Names: hierarchical, textual file names; local identifiers of open files (file descriptors); file handles; file
system identifiers; inode numbers; textual hostnames; IP addresses; port numbers; physical network addresses;
user and group identifiers; disk block numbers; physical disk addresses.
Attributes: file metadata, including physical storage information and user-visible file attributes.
See Section 12.3for more information about NFS.
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Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
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