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

2. 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

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

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

5. Page 5 of NFS Vendors Conference October 24, 2000 Progression NFS v2 First Commercial shipment 1985 18 ops File sizes limited to 32 bit Slow writes Arbitrary transfer limit Lack of cache consistency

6. 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

7. Page 7 of NFS Vendors Conference October 24, 2000 Progression NFS v3 Protocol published 1993 22 ops File size extended to 64 bit Fast write Increased transfer size ACCESS over the wire (supports caching & ACLs)

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

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

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

11. 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

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

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

14. 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

15. 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

16. 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

17. Page 17 of NFS Vendors Conference October 24, 2000 Reading list NFS Illustrated, Brent Callaghan Managing NFS and NIS, Hal Stern White papers at www.nfsv4.org

18. Page 18 of NFS Vendors Conference October 24, 2000 Reference www.nfsv4.org www.ietf.org www.connectathon.org www.sun.com/webnfs

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

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