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  • Updates and Announcements
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    • Product Introduction
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    • Product features
    • Product specifications
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    • Selection Guide
      • How to Choose Between CFS and PFS
      • How to Choose Between CFS, BOS and CDS
    • Application scenarios
  • Product pricing
    • Pay-as-you-go
    • Storage package billing
    • Insufficient balance reminders and debt handling
    • Billing Cases
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    • Quick start (Linux)
    • Quick start (Windows)
  • Operation guide
    • Activate Service
    • Manage File System
      • Create file system
      • Delete a file system
      • View file system details
      • Set File System Capacity Upper Limit
    • Mount and Access
      • Add mount target
      • Mount and Unmount CFS on BCC
        • Mount and Unmount on Linux System
          • Mount and Unmount SMB Protocol CFS on Single BCC
          • Batch mounting and unmounting NFS CFS on multiple BCC
          • Mounting and unmounting NFS CFS on a single BCC
        • Mount and Unmount SMB Protocol CFS on Windows System
        • Mount CFS File System When Purchasing New BCC
      • Using CFS in CCE
    • Permission Group Management
    • Identity and access management
    • Data encryption
    • Management Tags
    • Backup
    • Monitor and Alarm
      • View monitoring
      • Alarm management
      • Metric definition
    • Cloud Audit
  • Typical Practices
    • Set Different User Permissions for Different Directories
    • Using File Systems Across Regions Or Accounts
    • Use SFTP to Upload and Download CFS File System Data
    • Use Rsync to Sync From Old File System to CFS File System
    • Best Practices for Managing CFS with Terraform
    • Performance Testing Methods
      • Linux System Performance Testing Methods
      • Windows System Performance Testing Methods
  • API Reference
    • API Function Update Records
    • API Overview
    • Interface Overview
    • General Description
    • Service domain
    • Error code
    • File System Related Interfaces
      • Create file system
      • Update file system
      • Query file system
      • Query mount client
      • Drop file system
      • Update file system tags
    • mount target Related Interfaces
      • Create mount target
      • Query mount targets
      • Delete mount target
    • Permission Group-related APIs
      • Create Permission Group
      • Update permission group
      • Query Permission Groups
      • Delete permission group
      • Create permission group rules
      • Update permission group rules
      • Query permission group rules
      • Delete permission group rule
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Basic concepts

Updated at：2025-11-11

File Storage

Elastic File System, a cloud storage service, provides standard file access APIs (NFS, CIFS) for cloud hosts, Docker containers, and more. It offers unlimited capacity, high performance, multi-client sharing, and high availability.

File system

A file system is a method used by an operating system to organize and manage data stored on physical media.

NFS protocol

The NFS (Network File System) protocol, mainly for Linux and Unix clients, is supported by CFS in its NFS V4.1 version.

SMB/CIFS protocol

The SMB (Server Message Block) protocol, developed by Microsoft for sharing network resources, has a public variant known as CIFS (Common Internet File System) for better Windows client support. CFS currently supports core functionalities of SMB versions 1, 2, and 3.

Mount target

To address users' needs for accessing file systems across different VPCs or classic networks, the system generates dedicated access addresses. Each access address functions as a mount target. Users can specify the mount target's domain name to link the corresponding CFS file system to their local device.

Permission group

Permission groups configure access settings for file systems through different mount targets, including authorized IP addresses, read/write permissions, and other parameters.

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