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Re:NFS > FUSE: Why We Built Our Own NFS Server in Rust by mato on Tuesday September 19, 2023 @04:44PM (#37576262)
This is awesome. NFS is very much undervalued as a cross-platform interface for talking to a (not necessarily remote) filesystem.

~20 years ago I was using SFS (Self-certifying file system), which was a SSH-like Internet-usable TOFU filesystem, using NFS as the "backend" for talking to the host OS. The site has since disappeared, but is archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20080330201843/http://www.fs.net....

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Re:NFS > FUSE: Why We Built Our Own NFS Server in Rust by appplication on Tuesday September 19, 2023 @08:14PM (#37578856)
My only experience with NFS is it being excruciatingly slow. Is that not a universal issue?
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Re:NFS > FUSE: Why We Built Our Own NFS Server in Rust by snapplebobapple on Tuesday September 19, 2023 @09:07PM (#37579225)
When i shared the same conrwnr over nfs and cifs from truenas scale nfs was faster by about 15%..
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Re:NFS > FUSE: Why We Built Our Own NFS Server in Rust by selfhoster11 on Wednesday September 20, 2023 @03:38AM (#37581490)
If anything, it's probably one of the fastest ways to access files remotely that I have come across.
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