Which protocols can natively access objects that are written to ECS by the NFS protocol

Question

Options

• ACAS and S3
• BS3 and Swift
• CSwift and CIFS
• DCIFS and S3

• A
  5% (1)
• B
  89% (17)
• C
  5% (1)

Explanation

S3 and Swift are the correct answer because Dell EMC ECS (Elastic Cloud Storage) stores NFS-written data as objects in a shared object namespace, and S3 and Swift are the two object protocols that can natively read and write those same objects - they operate within the same storage pool and addressing model as NFS on ECS.

CAS (Choice A, D) is wrong because CAS (Content Addressable Storage) uses a fundamentally different addressing scheme based on content hashes and is designed for fixed-content/compliance use cases; it does not share the same object namespace as NFS-written data. CIFS (Choices C, D) is wrong because it is a file-sharing protocol (like NFS), not an object protocol - ECS does not natively bridge NFS-written objects to CIFS access.

Memory tip: Think "NFS writes objects → Object protocols read them." S3 and Swift are ECS's two primary object access protocols, so they pair naturally with NFS. If you see CAS or CIFS as options, eliminate them - CAS is content-addressed (separate world), and CIFS is just another file protocol that doesn't cross into object access.

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