Page 1 of NFS Vendors Conference October 24, 2000 NFS Past, Present & Future David F. Brittle Sr Mgr., File Sharing Technologies Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Page 2 of NFS Vendors Conference October 24, 2000 “The one thing I have learned from watching my son play video games is that if you stand still long enough you die,” Anonymous

Page 3 of NFS Vendors Conference October 24, 2000 Agenda History Current Status WebNFS Pointers

Page 4 of NFS Vendors Conference October 24, 2000 Why NFS? Need to share files – Simplified administration – Applications Cross platform – PC-NFS

Page 5 of NFS Vendors Conference October 24, 2000 Progression NFS v2 First Commercial shipment ops File sizes limited to 32 bit Slow writes Arbitrary transfer limit Lack of cache consistency

Page 6 of NFS Vendors Conference October 24, 2000 Business Drivers NFS v3 PC Explosion 64 bit hardware File size growth – data explosion – Application data needs Movement from – mainframe to open systems – IT centers to desktop

Page 7 of NFS Vendors Conference October 24, 2000 Progression NFS v3 Protocol published ops File size extended to 64 bit Fast write Increased transfer size ACCESS over the wire (supports caching & ACLs)

Page 8 of NFS Vendors Conference October 24, 2000 Business Driver NFS v4 Internet Need for cross platform support Strong security Designed for growth

Page 9 of NFS Vendors Conference October 24, 2000 Current status NFS v2 and v3 shipping with Solaris All major platforms Connectathon Bakeoffs

Page 10 of NFS Vendors Conference October 24, 2000 Open Source Released TI-RPC via new Sun Open Source License – available at – License supported in Open Standards community Positive press from: – InfoWorld – Linux Weekly – CNET News – Linux Today

Page 11 of NFS Vendors Conference October 24, 2000 Recent Product Enhancements NFS Logging shipped Solaris 8 Forced unmount Solaris 8 IPv6 support Performance improvements

Page 12 of NFS Vendors Conference October 24, 2000 Security RPCSEC_GSSAPI – Kerberos – others Compatibility testing

Page 13 of NFS Vendors Conference October 24, 2000 WebNFS Available for download – Prototypes working – IE5 plug in – Netscape plug in Server shipped with the following versions of Solaris: 2.5.1, 2.6, 7 & 8

Page 14 of NFS Vendors Conference October 24, 2000 Future business drivers Why NFS v4? Internet pressures B2B, B2C, P2P Security requirement Ability to respond to rapid changes

Page 15 of NFS Vendors Conference October 24, 2000 Future Continue working through the IETF process Under the NFS v4 working group – File migration – replication

Page 16 of NFS Vendors Conference October 24, 2000 Collaborative Development Continue funding college (CITI) Additional opportunities – Conformance test development – SPEC SFS to include NFS v4 – Client benchmark

Page 17 of NFS Vendors Conference October 24, 2000 Reading list NFS Illustrated, Brent Callaghan Managing NFS and NIS, Hal Stern White papers at

Page 18 of NFS Vendors Conference October 24, 2000 Reference

Page 19 of NFS Vendors Conference October 24, 2000 Summary History of success Continued leadership Active – Vendor deployment – Working groups

Page 20 of NFS Vendors Conference October 24, 2000 Q & A