Network filesystems (or distributed filesystems) support the sharing offiles, printers and other computing resources over a network. The performance of such filesystems is measured by the time it requires to satisfY the service requests by dif¬ferent computers connected on the network.

Such filesystems are found on file-servers and provide access to files by acting as clients for remote access protocols like NFS (Network file system) or 5MB (Server Message). NFS and 5MB are popular examples of network filesystems.

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Several network filesystems prevail today: 9P, Apple Fil¬ing Protocol (AFP), NetWare Core Protocol (NCP), Coda, Distributed File System (DFS) and Google File System (GFS), to name a few.

Filesystems are critical for storage media to run properly with the operating system_ Regular maintenance and protec¬tion from malware is not only advisable, it's necessary.