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Comment by pjmlp

14 days ago

Hence why even on UNIX people moved on from NFS, but on Linux it keeps being the remote filesystem many reach for.

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VorpalWay  14 days ago

NFS is more annoying on Linux than just using Samba though, at least for the NAS use case. With Samba on my server I can just browse to it in KDE's file manager Dolphin, and samba configuration is a relatively straight forward ini style file on the server. A pair of ports also need to be opened in the host firewall.

Contrast that with NFS, which last I looked needed several config files, matching account IDs between hosts, mounting as root, and would hang processes if connection was lost. At least I hear rpcbind is gone these days.

I don't think anyone sane uses NFS on Linux either these days. And it is rather funny that the protocol Microsoft invented is what stuck and became practical between Linux hosts.

  • pastage  14 days ago

    NetApp has NFS support and is widely used.

    • VorpalWay  13 days ago

      First thing I have heard about NetApp. Seems to be some enterprise focused company, with more than one product. Not sure which product of theirs you refer to.

      Synology, TrueNAS and Proxmox probably also have NFS support I would assume, and they definitely have Samba. Those are more relevant to me personally.

      I just run a normal headless Linux distro on my NAS computer, I don't see the point of a specialised NAS distro. It too could have NFS if I wanted it, but it currently has Samba, because it is easier and works better.

      So in conclusion, I'm not sure what your point is? Doesn't NetApp support anything except NFS?

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vablings  14 days ago

For me it was the path of least resistance, I do use WebDAV more now since Copyparty supports it out of the box but I would be open to suggestions