Use NFS (Network File System).

2025-07-14T20:06:03Z

Historically NFS has been a tremendous pain to set up due to the need to match user UIDs/GIDs across all systems in the network.

NFS is easy to set up and manage (certainly relative to AFS).

NFS is much, much faster than AFS.

NFS supports symbolic links.

Use NFS (Network File System).

Use NFSv4 and `rpc.idmapd` that ships with it to get around the problem of normalizing all UIDs/GIDs.

Which remote filesystem protocol should we use?