NFS
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
3recommend
3warn against
Dec 3, 2025first mention
Jul 12, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“Use good old NFS instead of the latest longceph horngluster version.”
“using NFS with the Thumpers and then Thors (X4540) was fantastic”
worked on market data analysis teamswitched from AFSon “Janet Jackson had the power to crash laptop computer…”
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“So we build nothing, pay nothing, get POSIX semantics back, and speed has gone up 3x.”
switched from OVHon “Has the cost of building software dropped 90%?”
Caveats and dissent
“NFS is now squashing everything to nobody”
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“reconciling that seemed painful”
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Who recommends it in their own words
Threads where it came up
- ZeroFS vs. Amazon S3 Files 1 mention
- I Am Building a Cloud 1 mention
- Healthchecks.io Now Uses Self-Hosted Object Storage 1 mention
- Disable Your SSH access accidentally with scp 1 mention
- Janet Jackson had the power to crash laptop computers (2022) 1 mention
- Why You Should Never Again Utter The Word, “CIFS” (2012) 1 mention
Data: nfs.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 8
“so NFS is out of the question”
“Use good old NFS instead of the latest longceph horngluster version.”
“I could have used something else instead of S3 – say, NFS”
“NFS is now squashing everything to nobody”
“using NFS with the Thumpers and then Thors (X4540) was fantastic”
NFS server on an Android smartphone without root access, "Testing: Termux, proot-distro, Network File System (NFS): https://gist.github.com/NoteAfterNote/e1719f4029b91918d996216939d5bff2 (gist.github.com/NoteAfterNote/e1719f4029b91918d996216939d5bff2)
“So we build nothing, pay nothing, get POSIX semantics back, and speed has gone up 3x.”
“reconciling that seemed painful”