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> You simply need to implement the vfs::NFSFileSystem trait.

Wait, what......

.. So not only is it an easy-to-run Rust NFS server and client (I gave up on NFS some years ago because I couldn't figure out how to run Samba) but it's also meant to use as a _substitute_ for FUSE in stacks like SSHFS or an app wanting to serve debug data as files?

Awesome!

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Exactly. You build the server-side (as a FUSE alternative), and just use the OS's NFS client to mount it.

Sweet! I've been monkeying around with writing an HFS interpreter (in rust ofc). Unfortunately 'fuser' is less than ideal on a Mac. This could be an interesting alternative.

Edit: Oh. It's async. The other bit that I liked from fuser: the default implementations in the trait cut down on the boiler plate. Setting the RO mount option got you defaults that DTRT.

You can interoperate async and threads, but yes you have to tolerate having Tokio or similar as a dep

I don't think this includes a client, in fact the post argues that not having to implement the client because it already exists in the kernel was a major benefit of the approach…

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