Remote File Sharing

<p>Remote File Sharing (RFS) is a <a href="/facts/Unix/0pNL2seI">Unix</a> operating system component for sharing resources, such as files, devices, and file system directories, across a network, in a network-independent manner, similar to a <a href="/facts/Distributed_file_system/Bz61f7Ce">distributed file system</a>. It was developed at <a href="/facts/Bell_Laboratories/fKP5Gk0H">Bell Laboratories</a> of <a href="/facts/AT%2526T_Corporation/BfsX7eX2">AT&T</a> in the 1980s, and was first delivered with <a href="/facts/UNIX_System_V/Epm6GEY4">UNIX System V</a> Release 3 (SVR3). RFS relied on the STREAMS Transport Provider Interface feature of this operating system. It was also included in UNIX System V Release 4, but as that also included the <a href="/facts/Network_File_System/jWRRALVo">Network File System</a> (NFS) which was based on <a href="/facts/Internet_protocol_suite/KNkxtSpw">TCP/IP</a> and more widely supported in the computing industry, RFS was little used. Some licensees of AT&T UNIX System V Release 4 did not include RFS support in SVR4 distributions, and <a href="/facts/Sun_Microsystems/VJ9EzEFd">Sun Microsystems</a> removed it from <a href="/facts/Solaris_(operating_system)/KPfT98EJ">Solaris</a> 2.4.
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Remote File Sharing