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Re: Mounting git commits as folders with NFS (2023)

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Post by donatj » Thu, May 21, 2026, 5:07 PM UTC

adi_kurian wrote: post #14

oefrha wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

By excellent do you mean bearable? macOS’s SMB stack is certainly not excellent.

By bearable do you mean it exists? It's fucking shite.

Which is why I'm so angry they're killing AFP. It works so much better and is super easy to set up a server for on a Linux

Re: Mounting git commits as folders with NFS (2023)

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Post by chungy » Thu, May 21, 2026, 5:09 PM UTC

mmh0000 wrote: post #17

steveBK123 wrote: post #9

NFS.. stop right there

You're being downvoted, but, seriously... NFS is a joke for anything outside of an enterprise setup with a bunch of ancillary support services in place. The fact that NFSv4 has no concept of true "Authentication" and just blindly accepts whatever the client sends is the craziest network application design ever: Client: Hi, NFS server, I'm Bob! UID=1000 Server: Hi Bob! Here's access to all of Bob's files! I trust you…

Funny part is, that NFSv4 supports SIDs for user authentication, but the Linux implementation leaves it out (among all the other ACL features) simply on the basis that Linux doesn't support them at all.

The FreeBSD, Solaris, Mac OS X, and Windows (yes, even Windows) implementations of NFSv4 are fully featured with this stuff.

Re: Mounting git commits as folders with NFS (2023)

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Post by deepspace » Thu, May 21, 2026, 5:12 PM UTC

The dot-com era called. They want ClearCase back.

Re: Mounting git commits as folders with NFS (2023)

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Post by everybodyknows » Thu, May 21, 2026, 5:17 PM UTC

2023.

Re: Mounting git commits as folders with NFS (2023)

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Post by steveBK123 » Thu, May 21, 2026, 5:21 PM UTC

mmh0000 wrote: post #17

steveBK123 wrote: post #9

NFS.. stop right there

You're being downvoted, but, seriously... NFS is a joke for anything outside of an enterprise setup with a bunch of ancillary support services in place. The fact that NFSv4 has no concept of true "Authentication" and just blindly accepts whatever the client sends is the craziest network application design ever: Client: Hi, NFS server, I'm Bob! UID=1000 Server: Hi Bob! Here's access to all of Bob's files! I trust you…

So many battle scars from NFS in production for me as well.

Wish the downvoters all the best in their future NFS endeavors.

Re: Mounting git commits as folders with NFS (2023)

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Post by skydhash » Thu, May 21, 2026, 5:23 PM UTC

mmh0000 wrote: post #17

steveBK123 wrote: post #9

NFS.. stop right there

You're being downvoted, but, seriously... NFS is a joke for anything outside of an enterprise setup with a bunch of ancillary support services in place. The fact that NFSv4 has no concept of true "Authentication" and just blindly accepts whatever the client sends is the craziest network application design ever: Client: Hi, NFS server, I'm Bob! UID=1000 Server: Hi Bob! Here's access to all of Bob's files! I trust you…

> The fact that NFSv4 has no concept of true "Authentication" and just blindly accepts whatever the client sends is the craziest network application design ever

Doesn’t the secure option require ports only a root user can bind too? And you can always create secure tunnels if the physical network is insecure.

Re: Mounting git commits as folders with NFS (2023)

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Post by projektfu » Thu, May 21, 2026, 5:30 PM UTC

mmh0000 wrote: post #17

steveBK123 wrote: post #9

NFS.. stop right there

You're being downvoted, but, seriously... NFS is a joke for anything outside of an enterprise setup with a bunch of ancillary support services in place. The fact that NFSv4 has no concept of true "Authentication" and just blindly accepts whatever the client sends is the craziest network application design ever: Client: Hi, NFS server, I'm Bob! UID=1000 Server: Hi Bob! Here's access to all of Bob's files! I trust you…

Will this matter if it's running on localhost and only accessible to the users there? She's just using it as a stand-in for FUSE.

Re: Mounting git commits as folders with NFS (2023)

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Post by mmh0000 » Thu, May 21, 2026, 5:32 PM UTC

skydhash wrote: post #26

mmh0000 wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You're being downvoted, but, seriously... NFS is a joke for anything outside of an enterprise setup with a bunch of ancillary support services in place. The fact that NFSv4 has no concept of true "Authentication" and just blindly accepts whatever the client sends is the craziest network application design ever: Client: Hi, NFS server, I'm Bob! UID=1000 Server: Hi Bob! Here's access to all of Bob's files! I trust you…

> The fact that NFSv4 has no concept of true "Authentication" and just blindly accepts whatever the client sends is the craziest network application design ever Doesn’t the secure option require ports only a root user can bind too? And you can always create secure tunnels if the physical network is insecure.

Sure, if you (the admin) have full control over the NFS server, the network, and the client devices, NFS can be secure with the help of Kerberos. But this isn't a simple thing. A Kerberos server needs to be set up, Kerberos clients need to be configured on the NFS server and client, tickets need to be issued, firewall ports need to be opened, and user accounts need to be centrally managed. That's all fine for an Enterprise.

Now, how about this common scenario: I want to run a file-sharing server on my network. I want a random "friend" to come over and grab a copy of a file, but I don't want them to see any other files on the NFS server.

So, the "friend" has root access on their device. They can just log in and lie to the NFS server, claim they're my UID, and see all my files that I didn't want them to access. Configuring KRB in that scenario is totally impractical.

Re: Mounting git commits as folders with NFS (2023)

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Post by mmh0000 » Thu, May 21, 2026, 5:34 PM UTC

projektfu wrote: post #27

mmh0000 wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You're being downvoted, but, seriously... NFS is a joke for anything outside of an enterprise setup with a bunch of ancillary support services in place. The fact that NFSv4 has no concept of true "Authentication" and just blindly accepts whatever the client sends is the craziest network application design ever: Client: Hi, NFS server, I'm Bob! UID=1000 Server: Hi Bob! Here's access to all of Bob's files! I trust you…

Will this matter if it's running on localhost and only accessible to the users there? She's just using it as a stand-in for FUSE.

To be clear: I am not criticizing the use case in the article. It's a silly, fun, and creative hacking together of technology.

I am criticizing NFS as a whole, and specifically its Linux implementation.

Re: Mounting git commits as folders with NFS (2023)

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Post by LoganDark » Thu, May 21, 2026, 5:45 PM UTC

I feel like mounting Jujutsu changes as folders would be more practical since they're stable across rebases?