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Why is the Sun NFS (Network File System) the choice of filesystem for many distributed filesystems out there?

Apparently some of my peers were talking about it today, and I was wondering what was so special about this file system that makes it the choice behind a lot of distributed file systems, as opposed to ...
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Is NFS secure over internet?

I want to connect to my home server from work using NFS. I tried sshfs but some people say it's not as reliable as NFS. I know sshfs traffic is encrypted. But what about NFS? Can someone sniff my ...