On the improvement of file browsing time in single client NFS system

The Network File System (NFS) is one of the most popular remote file system protocols for accessing directories and files over the network. If NFS mount point has thousands of files (e.g. a directory containing 5000 files), there is a significant performance drop in directory browsing (traverse, open(), stat() and read()) time as compared to local file system browsing (traverse, open(), stat() and read()) time. In order to reduce the file browsing time in the NFS with single client system, this paper presents the modification of a conventional NFS protocol usage with multiple client systems. Experimental results show the proposed implementation gives 44.6% performance improvement over a conventional one.