NFS v4 provides idmapping between client uids/gids and their server
equivalents using a config file.


On Thu, May 16, 2024 at 9:46 AM Dan Cross <crossd@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, May 16, 2024 at 7:51 AM John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org> wrote:
> > [snip]
> > This appears to be a VHS vs. Betamax battle: NFS was not transparent,
> but Sun had far more marketing clout.  However, the Manchester Connection
> required a single uid space (as far as I can tell), which may also have
> been a (perceived) institutional barrier.
>
> So did NFS, for that matter.
>
> This is one of those areas where Unix appears creaky in comparison to
> Plan 9. `ssh` is all about remote access to resources, whereas plan 9
> was all about resource sharing: you'd set up a namespace with all of
> the resources (exposed as files from wherever they ultimately came
> from) you cared about, and then operate on those "locally"; the
> resources were shared with you and access was transparent, via a
> consistent, file-based interface. You want to `diff` two remote files?
> Import the filesystems they're both on, mount those somewhere, and
> `diff /n/host1/file /n/host2/file`.
>
> I think the `sshfs`+FUSE model that Doug mentioned is about the
> closest you're going to get these days.
>
>         - Dan C.
>
>
>         - Dan C.
>