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  2. Automounter - Wikipedia

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    Automounter. An automounter is any program or software facility which automatically mounts filesystems in response to access operations by user programs. An automounter system utility (daemon under Unix), when notified of file and directory access attempts under selectively monitored subdirectory trees, dynamically and transparently makes local ...

  3. Network File System - Wikipedia

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    Network File System (NFS) is a distributed file system protocol originally developed by Sun Microsystems (Sun) in 1984, [1] allowing a user on a client computer to access files over a computer network much like local storage is accessed. NFS, like many other protocols, builds on the Open Network Computing Remote Procedure Call (ONC RPC) system.

  4. GFS2 - Wikipedia

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    GFS2. In computing, the Global File System 2 or GFS2 is a shared-disk file system for Linux computer clusters. GFS2 allows all members of a cluster to have direct concurrent access to the same shared block storage, in contrast to distributed file systems which distribute data throughout the cluster. GFS2 can also be used as a local file system ...

  5. File system - Wikipedia

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    A local file system is a capability of an operating system that services the applications running on the same computer. [1][2] A distributed file system is a protocol that provides file access between networked computers. A file system provides a data storage service that allows applications to share mass storage.

  6. Need for Speed (2015 video game) - Wikipedia

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    Single-player, multiplayer. Need for Speed is a 2015 online racing video game developed by Ghost Games and published by Electronic Arts. The game was released for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One in November 2015, while a Windows version released in March 2016. It is the twenty-second Need for Speed installment, and serves as a reboot of the franchise.

  7. Need for Speed - Wikipedia

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    Need for Speed (NFS) is a racing game franchise published by Electronic Arts and currently developed by Criterion Games (the developers of the Burnout series). [1] The series generally centers around illegal street racing, and tasks players to complete various types of races while evading the local law enforcement in police pursuits.

  8. File locking - Wikipedia

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    File locking. File locking is a mechanism that restricts access to a computer file, or to a region of a file, by allowing only one user or process to modify or delete it at a specific time and to prevent reading of the file while it's being modified or deleted. Systems implement locking to prevent the classic interceding update scenario, which ...

  9. Mount (computing) - Wikipedia

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    The system automatically notices that the disk has changed and updates the mount point contents to reflect the new medium. Similar functionality is found on Windows machines. An automounter will automatically mount a file system when a reference is made to the directory atop which it should be mounted. This is usually used for file systems on ...