arbalist

It doesn't take domain knowledge to take responsibility for improvement. If your retros are taken up by lamentation maybe you should try to bring more focus.

I don't know how you plan on doing the VFS stuff on windows but back in the day when I still used windows (XP) I had a shell extension that let you tag a folder or file from the context menu. It would then be linked into a tag directory using either NTFS reparse points (aka junctions?) for directories or hardlinks for files.

The need to use netcat is that it is faster. It gets better throughput in the presence of plentiful bandwidth. The whole point was to avoid using ssh for bulk transport.

After finding that using scp to copy stuff over my local network (and before finding out about hpn-ssh) I wrote this icky script to get better performance copying moving stuff around: https://github.com/toofar/fcp

It just wraps ssh+netcat+tar. The ssh connection is just used to setup the netcat (actually nc) connection like in mosh.

It doesn't have much dependencies (although it can use pv if installed on the local machine) and so should work on most platforms (didn't work on android last I checked, but I think I know why). It's a pretty ugly script (in particular errors are not propagated back to the terminal and backgrounding pv can lead to offset output) but it works and can even use scp's bash_completion script for completion on a remote filesystem.