What is the difference between HDFS and NFS?

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Network File System (NFS)	HDFS
This is a PROTOCOL developed so that clients can access files over a standard network.	This is a file system that is distributed among multiple systems or nodes.
It ALLOWS users to access files LOCALLY even though the files reside on a network.	It is fault-tolerant, i.e., it STORES multiple replicas of files over different systems.

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