NFS seems to be a good fit for their use cases, however I don't believe that NFS supports an `inotify` like interface which makes it less useful for usecases like virtual filesystems for developer environments.
Maybe newer NFS revisions allow for the NFS server to notify clients of changes like this, which would be really open things up here.
Very good point. Is there anything out there that's like NFS but also supports inotify? By "like NFS" I mean a remote filesystem protocol (not a block-level protocol) that works across platforms and can support nearly all filesystem features.
Maybe newer NFS revisions allow for the NFS server to notify clients of changes like this, which would be really open things up here.