Introduction D This chapter describes the general concept of remote file access and reviews the concepts underlying a particular remote access mechanism D Because the remote file access mechanism derives many ideas and details from the underlying Os, the chapter reviews the Linux file system and the semantics of file operations3 Introduction This chapter describes the general concept of remote file access and reviews the concepts underlying a particular remote access mechanism Because the remote file access mechanism derives many ideas and details from the underlying OS, the chapter reviews the Linux file system and the semantics of file operations