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NFS in 2020s ?

• georgebarnett 3y ago
  NFS scales and operates incredibly well however it has constraints. Like any tool, it has its appropriate uses. Why would you exclude a useful tool from your arsenal because of perceived downsides that are easy to hide from the layer above with appropriate system design?
• reacharavindh 3y ago
  Yes, there isn’t a saner alternative for centralised POsIX file storage to be accessed by hundreds of servers. This is HPC world. Small services, and object file storage can get away with other solutions.
• chromatin 3y ago
  I use FreeBSD as fileserver, serving NFS to linux clients. What do you suggest as an alternative? SMB/CIFS was -- when I last looked, which was a while back -- much slower for this use case.
• neverartful 3y ago
  Surely you jest! There's a ton of legacy workloads that rely on NFS.
• laxd 3y ago
  The NFS 4.2 spec was released late 2016. Whats your newfangled alternative? Some cloud service (other guys computer) that runs a bunch of actual tech (like NFS) behind the scenes? Beneath the layers of containers, rest-api's, js frameworks and web interfaces, there's someone that makes use of serious stuff.
• anonacct37 3y ago
  It's basically still the only game in town for a high performance shared posix filesystem with multiple writers and builtin support in basically all operating systems. As an application developer, I probably wouldn't choose to design a system that needed it. However there are lots of good reasons why a company in 2023 might decide to use this NFS based product: https://cloud.google.com/filestore?hl=en https://cloud.google.com/filestore?hl=en