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[api]

Why aren’t there any great remote drive mounting protocols? NFS works in some cases but is ancient and really only suited to cluster backplanes. Samba/CIFS sucks. SSHfs is a hack. It’s a super common thing that just has no solution.

I guess there’s way more money in solving it with a heavy cloud service that can charge rent for what should be a trivial core feature of every OS.

[teddyh → api]

> NFS works in some cases but is ancient and really only suited to cluster backplanes.

I was given to understand that NFSv4 was made to be much better for these purposes?

[tmpX7dMeXU → api]

Because there hasn’t been enough of a need. The main use cases are covered by what we’ve already got.

[GoblinSlayer → api]

What's the problem with sshfs?

[convolvatron → api]

plan9's protocol seemed like it might have some legs...but it seems to be being deprecated

[pseudostem → convolvatron]

WSL on windows uses plan 9 protocol(s) to mount my linux VM as a folder under windows.

*As suggested by another HNer.