Editing File system (section)

===Network file systems===
{{Main|Distributed file system}}

A ''network file system'' is a file system that acts as a client for a remote file access protocol, providing access to files on a server. Programs using local interfaces can transparently create, manage and access hierarchical directories and files in remote network-connected computers. Examples of network file systems include clients for the [[Network File System (protocol)|NFS]],<ref>{{citation|title=Sun's Network File System|url=http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/OSTEP/dist-nfs.pdf|publisher= Arpaci-Dusseau Books|year = 2014|first1 = Remzi H.|last1 =Arpaci-Dusseau|first2=Andrea C.|last2 = Arpaci-Dusseau}}</ref> [[Andrew File System|AFS]], [[Server Message Block|SMB]] protocols, and file-system-like clients for [[File Transfer Protocol|FTP]] and [[WebDAV]].