In article , Tejas Arun Kokje wrote:
> I wanted to know that why does NFS use RPC and not Distributed Shared
> Memory (DSM) ?

Because DSM is a model/topology for parallel computing.

If remote file systems were used as DSM then fileserver would have to read
everything to its main memory which would mean lots and lots of resources
needed (think about 1000 users all having large files open at the same
time).


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