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Why do people use NFS in this decade, when we have stuff like FUSE to put a file API on top of reliable networking tools?

NFS is an unstable buggy mess suitable only for light personal use. I have never been at an org that wasn't actively migrating off of legacy NFS , and that ended years ago.

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Our experience is that NFS works excellently in the environment it was designed for (a LAN environment of Unix machines administered by the same people). I still haven't seen a better Unix remote filesystem (and most of the modern distributed filesystem efforts are solving different problems, as seen by the fact that they don't support full core Unix semantics).

With that said, the environment NFS was designed for is increasingly uncommon. NFS is not necessarily a good fit for other environments, even if they look superficially similar.

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