I'm just happy with the files themselves being intact, but IME even that was difficult to achieve with non-NFS solutions. SMB was notoriously difficult to set u

I'm just happy with the files themselves being intact, but IME even that was difficult to achieve with non-NFS solutions. SMB was notoriously difficult to set up, and things like WebDAV or SFTP would have severe write loss problems when I tried to use them like an interactive local filesystem. NFS is rock stable.