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More questions:

Does it support extended attributes? You'd imagine so, but you'd have also expected NFSv4...

Will it ever support SMB?

Can you set per-UID quota limits, both in terms of bytes and IOPS/disk time?

I'm pleasantly surprised by mere NFSv3. Google doesn't use other people's standards by choice. They probably have an internal file protocol that the Greys gave them to hand over to humanity at a future date.

who are “the Greys”?

Aliens

thank you

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey_alien

You might be joking, perhaps not too much, but at some point Google used NFS (see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AndrewPollock2), then replaced it with something else: https://github.com/google/clusterfuzz-tools/blob/master/CONT...

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