Nfs — Disk

When we refer to an "NFS disk," we are typically describing a storage export (a file system or directory) residing on an NFS server that is mounted by an NFS client. To the client operating system, this remote storage appears as a mounted volume (e.g., /mnt/data ). To the end-user or application, it behaves nearly identically to a local hard drive or SSD.

Even with these innovations, the remains the workhorse of Linux sysadmins, cloud providers (AWS EFS is NFS), and Kubernetes clusters. Its simplicity, ubiquity, and "it just works" nature ensure that NFS will continue to power shared storage for decades to come. nfs disk

NFS is a preferred datastore for hypervisors. You can store VM disk images ( .vmdk , .qcow2 ) on an NFS disk, allowing live migration of VMs between hosts because the disk is shared. When we refer to an "NFS disk," we