Anyway, interesting idea. As another comment pointed out, I wish there was an easy way to mount NFS and 9p shares as a user.
I've been toying with 9p+Wireguard lately, as an alternative to SMB/Webdav/sftp/etc for sharing files with friends over the Internet. Wireguard+NFS works well enough, but it's relatively hard to integrate in userspace. Toying with rust-9p[1], I obtained acceptable performance. I still have to experiment with putting Wireguard in userspace as well (probably with Tailscale's implementation), but I come back to the difficulty of mounting 9p and NFS shares as a user. I also wish it was simpler to export directories over both protocols, on an unprivileged port, with access rights limited by those of the user.
Regarding the article content, I find 9p to be even simpler and probably more ubiquitous than NFS, though I don't know if MacOS and Windows natively support it.
I've been toying with 9p+Wireguard lately, as an alternative to SMB/Webdav/sftp/etc for sharing files with friends over the Internet. Wireguard+NFS works well enough, but it's relatively hard to integrate in userspace. Toying with rust-9p[1], I obtained acceptable performance. I still have to experiment with putting Wireguard in userspace as well (probably with Tailscale's implementation), but I come back to the difficulty of mounting 9p and NFS shares as a user. I also wish it was simpler to export directories over both protocols, on an unprivileged port, with access rights limited by those of the user.
Regarding the article content, I find 9p to be even simpler and probably more ubiquitous than NFS, though I don't know if MacOS and Windows natively support it.
[1]: https://github.com/pfpacket/rust-9p